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MTB523 1944

Ships

Names	Builders	Completed	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
MTB222 Sperwer MTB229 Gier MTB231 Stormvogel MTB235 Sperwer MTB236 Havik MTB240 Buizerd	McLean, Renfrew, UK: MTB222 Sperwer McGruer, Clyder, UK: MTB229 Gier, MTB231 Stormvogel Berthon, Lymington, UK: MTB235 Sperwer Camper & Nicholson, Gosport, UK: MTB236 Havik Morgan Gyles, Teignmouth, UK: MTB240 Buizerd	4-6/1942: MTB222 Sperwer, MTB240 Buizerd 1942 // 4-6/1942: MTB235 Sperwer 1942 // 7-8/1943: MTB229 Gier, MTB231 Stormvogel, MTB236 Havik	None	United Kingdom, 6.1942: MTB222 Sperwer (MTB222); 1946: MTB229 Gier, MTB231 Stormvogel, MTB235 Sperwer, MTB236 Havik, MTB240 Buizerd	None

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	39.4
Displacement full, t	47
Length, m	22.1
Breadth, m	5.84
Draught, m	1.27 deep load
No of shafts	3
Machinery	3 Packard petrol engines
Power, h. p.	3750
Max speed, kts	37
Fuel, t	petrol 11700 l
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 2 - 12.7/62, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 2 - 533 TT, 2 DC
Electronic equipment	type 286U or type 286PU radar
Complement	12 - 13

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Project history

One of standard British-built MTBs of WWII era. Wooden-hulled. The first MTBs, transferred to Dutch Navy on lend-lease: MTB222 and 240 right after completions (and the first was replaced in some weeks by MTB235); and MTB229, 231 and 236 from British 9th MTB flotilla.

Modernizations

1943 - 1944, all: - 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

No significant events.