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PT368 motor torpedo boats

 

 

PT368 1943

 

Names

PT368 - 371, 384 - 449, 661 - 730

Builders

Canadian Power Boat, Montreal, Canada: PT368 - 371

Robert Jacob, New York: PT384 - 399

Annapolis Yacht: PT400 - 429, 661 - 730

Herreshoff, Bristol: PT430 - 449

Commissioned

3-4/1943 - PT368 - 371

1-12/1944 - PT384 - 449, 661 - 682

1-10/1945 - PT683 - 730

Losses

PT368 (11/10/1944), PT371 (19/9/1944)

Transfers

United Kingdom 5 - 10/1944: PT384 - 399 (MTB396 - 411)

Soviet Union 1/1944 - 5/1945: PT400 - 449, 661 - 692 (TK-220, 221, 231 - 234, 244, 245, 235 - 240, 561 - 563, 547, 567, 548, 580, 570, 587, 568, 588 - 597, 559, 560, 241 - 243, 564 - 566, 549, 517, 518, 537, 569, 538 - 540, 550, 578, 527, 579, 246, 528, 247, 265 - 268, 809, 810, 814, 811 - 813, 269 - 272, 248 - 264)

Cuba 7 - 8/1946: PT715, 716 (R41, 42)

Discarding

11-12/1945: PT369, 370, PT729 (small boat), PT730 (small boat)

6-9/1946: PT693 - 714 (never commissioned by USN)

6-8/1947: PT717 - 728 (never commissioned by USN)

 

Displacement standard, t

33

Displacement full, t

45

Length, m

22.1

Breadth, m

5.87

Draught, m

1.68

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 petrol engines

Power, h. p.

3375

Max speed, kts

39

Fuel, t

petrol 11200 l

Endurance, nm (kts)

570 (20)

Armament

PT368 - 371: 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 2 x 2 - 12.7/90, 4 - 533 TT

PT384 - 449: 1 x 2 - 12.7/62, 2 - 533 TT, 2 DC

PT661 - 692: 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 2 x 2 - 12.7/90, 2 - 533 TT, 2 DC

PT693 - 730 were not placed in service and never were armed

Sensors

SO or SCR-517A radar

Complement

10 - 12

 

Ship project history: 72ft Vosper type, These boats were built under license of Vosper.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

 

 

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