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"GAY" fast attack craft (torpedo / gun) (GAY ARCHER) (12, 1952 - 1954)


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Gay Bombardier 1953 as MTB

Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

P1041 Gay Archer

P1042 Gay Bombardier

P1043 Gay Bowman

P1044 Gay Bruiser

P1045 Gay Carabineer

P1046 Gay Cavalier

P1047 Gay Centurion

P1048 Gay Charger

P1049 Gay Charioteer

P1050 Gay Dragoon

P1051 Gay Fencer

P1052 Gay Forester

Vosper, Portchester: P1041-1044

Thornycroft, Hampton: P1045, 1047

Taylor, Chertsey: P1046, 1050

Morgan Gyles, Teignmouth: P1048, 1049

McGruer, Clynder: P1051, 1052

1952: P1041 - 1043, 1047

1953: P1044 - 1046, 1048 - 1051

1954: P1052

none

none

1962: P1044, 1047, 1050, 1052

1963: P1041 - 1043, 1045, 1046

1967: P1048

1968: P1051

1971: P1049



Technical data


Displacement standard, t

50

Displacement full, t

65

Length, m

21.8 pp 22.9 oa

Breadth, m

6.10

Draught, m

1.20

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Packard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

4500

Max speed, kts

40

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

as gunboats: 1 x 1 - 114/19 Mk I, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Mk 12

as torpedo boats: 1 x 2 - 20/70 Mk 12, 2 - 533 TT

Electronic equipment

type 293Q radar

Complement

13



Standard scale images


<i>Gay Archer </i> 1953
Gay Archer 1953
<i>Gay Fencer </i> 1963
Gay Fencer 1963


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<i>Gay Bombardier </i>1953 as MTB
Gay Bombardier 1953 as MTB
<i>Gay Bombardier </i>1953 as MGB
Gay Bombardier 1953 as MGB


Project history

Short-hulled wooden convertible MTBs/MGBs, these were the last class with petrol engines. The design was developed from Vosper's MTB538 and was basically an interim one (after the 'Darks') since development of the Deltic diesel was being delayed. Originally were numbered as FPBs but were completed with P numbers.

Modernizations

mid-1950s, all: - 1 x 2 - 20/70; + 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 7

Naval service

No significant events.