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MTB259 motor torpedo boats

MTB263 1941

Names

MTB259 - 268 (ex-PT10 - 19)

Builders

Elco, Bayonne, USA

Completed

11 - 12/1940 // 3/1941

Losses

MTB259 (14/6/1942), MTB261 (26/8/1945), MTB262 (24/2/1943), MTB264 (10/5/1943), MTB267 (2/4/1943)

Transfers

None

Discarding

to USA 3/1946: MTB260, 263, 265, 266, 268

 

 

Displacement standard, t

32

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

21.3

Breadth, m

6.30

Draught, m

1.60

No of shafts

3

Machinery

Packard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

4050

Max speed, kts

39

Fuel, t

petrol 13600 l

Armament

2 õ 2 - 12.7/90, 2 x 2 - 7.7/87, 2 - 533 TT, 2 DC

Complement

17

Ship project history: Ex-USN boats.

Modernizations:  None.

Naval service: No significant events.

PT10 on trials

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