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MTB269 motor torpedo boats (5, 1940 - 1941 / 1941)


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

MTB269 - 271 (ex-PT5-7)

MTB273, MTB274 (ex-PT3,4)

Higgins, New Orleans, USA: MTB269, 270

Philadelphia N Yd, USA: MTB271

Fisher Boatworks, Detroit, USA: MTB273, 274

1941 // 4.1941: MTB269 - 271

1940 // 4.1941: MTB273, 274

MTB272 (PT8) never transferred from USA

None

to USA 1945: MTB269 - 271, 273, 274



Technical data


Displacement standard, t

46

Displacement full, t54
Length, m23.9
Breadth, m6.12
Draught, m1.60
No of shafts3
Machinery

3 Packard petrol engines

Power, h. p.4050
Max speed, kts

39

Fuel, t

petrol 13600 l

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

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

Complement17


Standard scale images


<i>MTB273</i> 1942
MTB273 1942
<i>MTB271</i> 1942
MTB271 1942


Project history

Ex-USN boats.

Modernizations

1942-1943, many survived: + type 286PU radar

1943-1944, many survived: - type 286PU radar; + type 291U radar

Naval service

No significant events.