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  MTB50 1941  

Ships

Names	Builders	Completed	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
MTB24 - 25 MTB28 MTB49 - 56	Thornycroft, Woolston: MTB24-25, 28, 49-56	12/1939: MTB24 1-7/1940: MTB25, 28 4-12/1941: MTB49 - 56	MTB28 (7.3.1941)	Norway 1941 - 1942: MTB50, 51, 53, 54, 56 (all returned 1942)	1943: MTB49 - 56 10/1945: MTB24, 25

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	37
Displacement full, t	43 MTB49 - 56: 52
Length, m	22.6 MTB49 - 56: 23.0
Breadth, m	5.05 MTB49 - 56: 5.18
Draught, m	1.00 deep load
No of shafts	3 MTB49 - 56: 2
Machinery	2 Isotta-Fraschini petrol engines MTB49 - 56: 4 Thornycroft petrol engines
Power, h. p.	3450 MTB49 - 56: 2600
Max speed, kts	42.7 on trials MTB49 - 56: 25.3 - 29 on trials
Fuel, t	petrol 8410 - 9090 l
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 2 - 12.7/62, 2 x 1 - 7.7/94, 2 - 533 TT, 2 DC or 4 mines
Complement	10 - 12

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Project history

Wooden hull.

Modernizations

1942, MTB24, 25: were re-engined with 3 Packard engines (3600hp)

1943-1944, may be some: + type 291U radar

1943 - 1945, MTB24, 25: - 1 x 2 - 12.7/62; + 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

Naval service

1943: MTB49 - 56 were converted to aircraft target tugs Meggido, Menin, Messines, Marne, Mons, Montaubn, Morval and Nablus.