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VTB23 motor torpedo boats (1940)


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VTB23 1940

Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

VTB23 - 40

BPB, Hythe, UK: VTB23-40

1940: VTB23 - 27

captured incomplete by British 3.7.1940: VTB28 - 40 (MGB55 - 67)

VTB23 (3.7.1940 RN MGB50), VTB24 (3.7.1940 RN MGB51), VTB25 (3.7.1940 RN MGB52), VTB26 (3.7.1940 RN MGB53), VTB27 (3.7.1940 RN MGB54)

None

None


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

34
Displacement full, t38
Length, m21.3
Breadth, m6.10
Draught, m1.22
No of shafts3
Machinery3 Rolls-Royce petrol engines
Power, h. p.3300
Max speed, kts

43
Fuel, t

petrol 11
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 2 - 13.2/76, 4 - 400 TT, 2 DCR (10)
Complement

11


Standard scale images


<i>MGB50</i> 1940
MGB50 1940


Graphics


<i>MGB61</i> 1942
MGB61 1942
<i>VTB23</i> 1940
VTB23 1940


Project history

VTB23-40 were ordered in Britain under British Power Boat design. All were completed for RN as MGB50-57.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

All completed and incomplete boats were captured by British 3.7.1940.