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KUAI 1 motor torpedo boats (1933)


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

快速船數量1, 2 [Kuai 1, 2]

Thornycroft, Woolston, UK: Kuai 1, 2

1933: Kuai 1, 2

Kuai 1 (24.10.1938), Kuai 2 (23.10.1938)

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Technical data


Displacement standard, t

12.5

Displacement full, t14
Length, m

16.8

Breadth, m

3.35

Draught, m

1.07

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Thornycroft petrol engines

Power, h. p.

950

Max speed, kts

43

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 1 - 7.7/87, 2 - 450 TT

Complement

5



Standard scale images


<i>Kuai 1</i> 1933
Kuai 1 1933


Project history

Ordered in 1932 in number of 8 boats. Later the order was shrunk to two MTBs (building numbers 2269 and 2270), built in 1933 for Canton squadron for replacement of older MAS226 and 227, bought in Italy in 1921. Enhanced 55ft Thornycroft type of WWI-period. Wooden stepped hull. Kuai 2 on trials on Thames in November, 1933 reached 43kts.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

In January, 1934 both boats passed to Canton (Guangzhou) where they were lost in October, 1938.

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