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MTB41 motor torpedo boats

MTB41

Names

MTB41 - 48, MTB201 - 212, MTB246 - 257

Builders

White, Cowes

Completed

11-12/1940: MTB41, 42

1-11/1941: MTB43 - 48, 201

1-12/1942: MTB202 - 212

5-10/1942: MTB246 - 257

Losses

MTB41 (14/2/1941), MTB43 (7/8/1942), MTB44 (15/6/1942), MTB47 (17/1/1942), MTB201 (15/6/1942), MTB248 (6/6/1944), MTB255 (14/2/1945)

Transfers

Netherlands, 3-8/1942 (returned 9/1944): MTB202, 204 (Kemphaan, Valk)

Netherlands, 3/1942: MTB203 (Arend)

Discarding

circa 1945 - 1946: MTB246, 247, 249 - 254, 256, 257

11-12/1944: MTB42, 45, 46, 48, 205, 207 - 212

7/1945: MTB206

1947: MTB202, 204

 

 

Displacement standard, t

37 - 40.5

Displacement full, t

43.6 - 49

Length, m

22.0 - 22.1

Breadth, m

5.54 - 5.84

Draught, m

1.21 - 1.26 deep load

No of shafts

3

Machinery

Hall Scott petrol engines

Power, h. p.

2700

Max speed, kts

28 - 29.5 trial

Fuel, t

petrol 9090 - 11560 l

Armament

1 x 2 - 12.7/62, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 2 - 533 TT, 2 - 4 DC

Sensors

circa from MTB201: type 286 radar

Complement

12

Ship project history: Wooden hull.

Modernizations: 1942: all survived boats were re-engined with 3 Sterling engines (3600hp, 36kts)

1943 - 1944, all survived: - 1 x 2 - 12.7/62; + 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon

Naval service: No significant events.

 

MTB208 1940

 

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