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MGB68 motor gun boat (1, 1940 / 1942)


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding
MGB68 (ex-PT6) Higgins, New Orleans, USA: MGB68 1941 // 1941: MGB68

none

none to USA 1946: MGB68


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

30

Displacement full, t 
Length, m24.7
Breadth, m 
Draught, m 
No of shafts3
Machinery

3 petrol engines

Power, h. p.3000
Max speed, kts

31

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk 2.4, 2 x 2 - 12.7/62, 4 DC

Complement17


Project history

Ex-USN MTB transferred by lend-lease.

Modernizations

1942-1943, presumably: + type 286PU or type 291U radar

Naval service

No significant events.