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PHILIPPINE NAVY (PHILIPPINES)

COASTAL FORCES

motor torpedo boats ordered for Thornycroft

Names

i - x

Builders

Thornycroft, Southampton, UK

Completed

4-12/1940 // ---: MTB213 - 215

1/1941 // ---: MTB216, 217

8/1942 // ---: MTB327 - 331

Losses

all were requisitioned in 1939 by United Kingdom as MTB213 - 217 and 327 - 331 before completion

Transfers

none

Discarding

none

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

17

Length, m

16.8

Breadth, m

3.35

Draught, m

1.07

No of shafts

2

Machinery

Thornycroft petrol engines

Power, h. p.

750

Max speed, kts

38

Fuel, t

petrol

Armament

2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 2 - 450 TT, 2 DC

Complement

5

 

Ship project history: In 1938 10 MTBs were ordered to Thornycroft, but after beginning of WWII they were requisitioned by British Government and later commissioned by Royal Navy as MTB213-217 and MTB327-331.

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