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MGB177 motor gun boats

MGB177 1944

Names

MGB177 - 192 (ex-PT206, 214 - 216, 201, 204, 207 - 209, 211, 213, 217, 203, 205, 210, 212)

Builders

Higgins, New Orleans, USA

Completed

1 - 12/1943 // 1943 - 1944

Losses

none

Transfers

Yugoslavia, 1945: MGB181 - 188 (MT1 - 8)

Discarding

1944: MGB180, 189, 190, 192

1945 - 1947: MGB177-179, 191

 

 

Displacement standard, t

46

Displacement full, t

54

Length, m

23.9

Breadth, m

6.12

Draught, m

1.60

No of shafts

3

Machinery

Packard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

4050

Max speed, kts

39

Fuel, t

petrol 13000 l

Armament

2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 4 x 2 - 12.7/90, DC

Sensors presumably SO radar

Complement

17

Ship project history: Ex-US. Lend-lease.

Modernizations: none.

Naval service: MGB180, 189, 190, 192 became controlled targets CT43, CT40, CT41 and CT42 in 1944. CT43 was transferred later to Turkey.

 

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