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PT71 motor torpedo boats

 

 

PT265 1944

 

Names

PT71 - 94, 197 - 254, 265 - 313, 450 - 485, 625 - 660, 791 - 808

Builders

Higgins, New Orleans

Commissioned

7-12/1942: PT71 - 80, 82 - 94

1-12/1943: PT81, 197 - 254, 265 - 307

1-8, 12/1944: PT308 - 313, 450 - 485, 625, 626

1-10/1945: PT627 - 660, 791 - 796

Losses

PT73 (15/1/1945), PT77 (1/2/1945), PT79 (1/2/1945), PT200 (22/2/1944), PT202 (16/8/1944), PT218 (16/8/1944), PT219 (14/9/1943), PT239 (14/12/1943), PT247 (5/5/1944), PT251 (26/2/1944), PT279 (11/2/1944), PT283 (17/3/1944), PT300 (18/12/1944), PT301 (7/11/1944), PT311 (18/11/1944)

PT797 - 808 - sold incomplete

Transfers

Soviet Union 2-11/1943: PT85 - 87, 89, 197, 198, 265 - 276, 289 - 294, 625 - 656 (unnamed, No22, unnamed, No21, unnamed, unnamed, No202 - 213, TK-215 - 218, 222, 219, 851- 882)

United Kingdom 4/1943: PT88, 90 - 94, 201, 203 - 217 (MTB419 - 424, MGB181, 189, 182, 190, 177, 183 - 185, 191, 186, 192, 187, 178 - 180, 188)

Discarding

10/1945-1/1946: PT71, 72, 74 - 76, 78, 80 - 84, 197 - 199, 220 - 238, 240 - 246, 248 - 250, 252 - 254, 277 - 278, 280 - 282, 284 - 288, 295 - 299, 302 - 310, 312, 313, 450 - 485, 657 - 660, 791 - 796

 

 

Displacement standard, t

35

Displacement full, t

43 - 48

Length, m

23.9 - 24.0

Breadth, m

6.12

Draught, m

1.60

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 petrol engines

Power, h. p.

4050 - 4500

Max speed, kts

41

Fuel, t

petrol 10800 l

Endurance, nm (kts)

500 (20)

Armament

PT71 - 94, 197 - 254, 265 - 313: 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 2 x 2 - 12.7/90, 4 - 533 TT

PT450 - 485, 625 - 660, 791 - 796: 1 x 1 - 40/56 Bofors, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 4 - 533 TT

Sensors SO or SCR-517A radar
Complement

17

 

Ship project history: 78ft Higgins type, designed on the basis of project made by "British Power Boats".

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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