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VTB11 motor torpedo boats (1939)


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VTB12 1939

Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

VTB11 - 14

A C de la Loire, Nantes: VTB11-14

1939: VTB11, 12

incomplete abandoned 1941: VTB13

completed as SAR craft 1945: VTB14

UK, 1940: VTB11, 12 (MGB98, 99)

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Technical data


Displacement standard, t

28

Displacement full, t 
Length, m20.0
Breadth, m3.96
Draught, m1.23
No of shafts2
Machinery2 Lorraine petrol engines
Power, h. p.2200
Max speed, kts

45

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)330(45)
Armament

VTB11, 12: 1 x 2 - 7.5/80, 2 - 400 TT, 1 DCR (6)

VTB13, 14: 1 x 1 - 12.7/62, 2 - 400 TT, 1 DCR (6)

Complement

 



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<i>VTB12</i> 1939
VTB12 1939


Project history

 VTB13 was completed in 1941 with British artillery. VTB14 was incomplete till the end of war.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Partially completed VTB11 and VTB12 in June, 1940 escaped to Britain and were commissioned by RN as MGB98 and MGB99.