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MTB618 motor torpedo boats (1942-1944, 1942-1944/1942-1945)


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Ravn 1951

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
MTB618 (ex-MGB618)     P. K. Harris, Appledore, UK     6.1942 wrecked 10.11.1944, CTL
MTB619 (ex-MGB619)     Dorset Yacht, Hamworthy, UK     8.1942 // 11.1942 to UK 7.1944 (MTB619)
MTB620 (ex-MGB620)     Dickie, Bangor, UK     9.1942 // 11.1942 to UK 8.1943 (MTB620)
MTB623 (ex-MGB623)     Wallasea Bay Yacht Stn., UK     8.1942 to UK 1.1945 (MTB623)
MTB625 (ex-MGB625)     Alex Robertson, Sandbank, UK     9.1942 wrecked 8.2.1944
MTB626 (ex-MGB626)     Tough Bros., Teddington, UK     7.1942 scuttled after a fire 22.11.1943
MTB627 (ex-MGB627)     P. K. Harris, Appledore, UK     10.1942 to UK 1.1945 (MTB627)
MTB631 (ex-MGB631)     Wm. King, Burnham, UK     8.1942 captured by Germany 14.3.1943 (S631)
MTB653 (ex-MGB653)     Alex Robertson, Sandbank, UK     3.1943 to UK 1.1945 (MTB653)
MTB688 (ex-MGB688)     Dickie, Tarbert, UK     7.1943 // 8.1943 to UK 1.1945 (MTB688)
MTB704, 1946- Ørn     Wm. Osbourne, Littlehampton, UK     11.1943 // 12.1944 stricken 1951
MTB709, 1946- Lom 1950- P347   Dickie, Tarbert, UK     2.1944 stricken 1959
MTB711, 1946- Falk 1950- P343   Brooke Marine, Oulton Broad, UK     4.1944 stricken 1959
MTB712     Wallasea Bay Yacht Stn.,UK     2.1944 wrecked 26.1.1945
MTB713, 1946- Hauk     Dorset Yacht, Hamworthy, UK     12.1943 // 2.1945 fire 23.11.1948
MTB715, 1946- Teist 1950- P348   Woodnutt, St. Helens, UK     12.1943 stricken 1959
MTB716, 1946- Ravn 1950- P344   James A. Silver, Rosneath, UK     4.1944 // 12.1944 stricken 1959
MTB717, 1946- Stegg 1950- P345   Dickie, Bangor, UK     2.1944 // 9.1944 stricken 1959
MTB719, 1946- Skarv 1950- P346   Lady Bee, Shoreham, UK     2.1944 // 1.1945 stricken 1959
MTB722, 1946- Jo 1950- P349   Thomson & Balfour, Victoria Saw Mills, UK     3.1944 stricken 1958
MTB723, 1946- Kjeld 1950- P350   P. K. Harris, Appledore, UK     4.1944 // 1.1945 stricken 1959


100 - 1000 t displacement/ BRT tonnage vessels


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate MTB618 (ex-MGB618)     P. K. Harris, Appledore, UK     6.1942 wrecked 10.11.1944, CTL MTB619 (ex-MGB619)     Dorset Yacht, Hamworthy, UK     8.1942 // 11.1942 to UK 7.1944 (MTB619) MTB620 (ex-MGB620)     Dickie, Bangor, UK     9.1942 // 11.1942 to UK 8.1943 (MTB620) MTB623 (ex-MGB623)     Wallasea Bay Yacht Stn., UK     8.1942 to UK 1.1945 (MTB623) MTB625 (ex-MGB625)     Alex Robertson, Sandbank, UK     9.1942 wrecked 8.2.1944 MTB626 (ex-MGB626)     Tough Bros., Teddington, UK     7.1942 scuttled after a fire 22.11.1943 MTB627 (ex-MGB627)     P. K. Harris, Appledore, UK     10.1942 to UK 1.1945 (MTB627) MTB631 (ex-MGB631)     Wm. King, Burnham, UK     8.1942 captured by Germany 14.3.1943 (S631) MTB653 (ex-MGB653)     Alex Robertson, Sandbank, UK     3.1943 to UK 1.1945 (MTB653) MTB688 (ex-MGB688)     Dickie, Tarbert, UK     7.1943 // 8.1943 to UK 1.1945 (MTB688) MTB704, 1946- Ørn     Wm. Osbourne, Littlehampton, UK     11.1943 // 12.1944 stricken 1951 MTB709, 1946- Lom 1950- P347   Dickie, Tarbert, UK     2.1944 stricken 1959 MTB711, 1946- Falk 1950- P343   Brooke Marine, Oulton Broad, UK     4.1944 stricken 1959 MTB712     Wallasea Bay Yacht Stn.,UK     2.1944 wrecked 26.1.1945 MTB713, 1946- Hauk     Dorset Yacht, Hamworthy, UK     12.1943 // 2.1945 fire 23.11.1948 MTB715, 1946- Teist 1950- P348   Woodnutt, St. Helens, UK     12.1943 stricken 1959 MTB716, 1946- Ravn 1950- P344   James A. Silver, Rosneath, UK     4.1944 // 12.1944 stricken 1959 MTB717, 1946- Stegg 1950- P345   Dickie, Bangor, UK     2.1944 // 9.1944 stricken 1959 MTB719, 1946- Skarv 1950- P346   Lady Bee, Shoreham, UK     2.1944 // 1.1945 stricken 1959 MTB722, 1946- Jo 1950- P349   Thomson & Balfour, Victoria Saw Mills, UK     3.1944 stricken 1958 MTB723, 1946- Kjeld 1950- P350   P. K. Harris, Appledore, UK     4.1944 // 1.1945 stricken 1959

Technical data


Displacement standard, t

102

Displacement full, t

118

Length, m35.1
Breadth, m6.48
Draught, m1.50 deep load
No of shafts4
Machinery

4 Packard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

4800

Max speed, kts

29

Fuel, t

petrol 22700 l

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

MTB618-620, 623, 625-627, 631, 653, 688: 1 x 1 - 40/39 QF Mk VIII, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 2 - 12.7/62, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 2 - 533 TT, 2 DC

MTB704, 709, 711-713, 715-717, 719, 722, 723: 2 x 1 - 57/43 6pdr 7cwt QF Mk II, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 2 - 12.7/62, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 2 - 533 TT, 2 DC

Electronic equipment

completed 1942-1943: type 286U or type 286PU radar

most completed 1943-1944: type 291U or type 293 radar

few completed 1943-1944: SO radar

completed 1944-1945: type 291U or type 293 or type 268U radar

Complement14 - 30


Standard scale images


<i>MTB715</i> 1943
MTB715 1943


Graphics


<i>Ravn </i>1951
Ravn 1951


Project history

British 115ft Fairmile "D" class boats, very successful design.

Modernizations

1943-1944, most earlier: - type 286U or type 286PU radar; + type 291U or type 293 radar

late 1944, some boats: - 1 x 1 - 40/39, 2 - 533 TT; + 1 x 1 - 57/43 6pdr 7cwt QF Mk II, 1 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss Mk I/II, 2 - 450 TT

late 1944 - early 1945, some boats: - 2 x 2 - 12.7/62; + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk IV

late 1940s, all survived were armed with: 1 x 1 - 57/43 Mk VII, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Mk V, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 4 - 450 TT, 2 DC

Naval service

MTB631 ran aground at Florö 14.3.1943, abandoned and subsequently captured by Germans and commissioned by them as S631. МТВ626 was sunk at Lervik 22.11.1943 as a result of a fire. МТВ625 was wrecked in the North Sea 8.2.1944. МТВ618 was stricken after hull damages during a storm 10.11.1944. МТВ712 was wrecked off Shetland islands 26.1.1945.