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P37 motor launches (1942)


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

P37 - 40

East Indies Yards: P37 - 40

1942: P37 - 40

P37 (3/1942), P38 (3/1942), P39 (3/1942), P40 (3/1942)

None

None



Technical data


Displacement standard, t~30
Displacement full, t 
Length, m22.0 pp
Breadth, m 
Draught, m 
No of shafts1
Machinery1 diesel
Power, h. p.165
Max speed, kts

10

Fuel, t 
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 1 - 40/39 QF Mk VIII, 2 x 1 - 7.7/94

Complement 


Project history

Patrol and guard boats which were a part of the Gouvernementmarine, type "P" were slow-speed, and type "S" were fast. Built on colonial wharfs under own projects, slightly improved from a series to a series.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

All boats were lost or have been destroyed by crews during time of Japanese offensive.