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MTB71 motor torpedo boats (2, 1940)


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding
MTB71, 72 Vosper, Portsmouth: MTB71, 72 7/1940: MTB71, 72 None None to War Dept. 6-7/1943: MTB71, 72


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

25

Displacement full, t32
Length, m18.6
Breadth, m4.67
Draught, m0.94 deep load
No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Isotta-Fraschini petrol engines

Power, h. p.2300
Max speed, kts

41

Fuel, t

petrol 5330 l

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 2 - 12.7/62, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 2 - 450 TT, 4 DC

Complement10


Project history

Ex-Norwegian 61ft boats, requisitioned on stocks. Wooden hull.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.