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TM51 1940

Ships

Names	Builders	Commissioned	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
TM51 - 53 TM62 - 69	British Power Boat, Hythe, UK: TM51 Gusto, Schiedam: TM52, 53, 62 - 69	11/1939: TM51	captured incomplete by Germany 5.1940: TM52 (S201), TM53 (S202), TM62 (S203), TM63 (S204), TM64 (S205), TM65 (S206), TM66 (S207), TM67 (S208), TM68 (S209), TM69 (S210)	United Kingdom, 7.1940: TM51 (MA/SB46), returned 3.1941; 11.1941: TM51 (MGB46, later MTB433), returned 4.1946	1946: TM51

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	32
Displacement full, t	37
Length, m	19.7 pp 21.3 oa
Breadth, m	6.10
Draught, m	1.37
No of shafts	3
Machinery	3 Rolls-Royce Merlin III petrol engines
Power, h. p.	3300
Max speed, kts	40
Fuel, t	petrol 8.8
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 20/80 Hispano, 2 - 450 TT, 2 DCR(8)
Complement	9 - 10

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Project history

The first attempt of creation of fast attack boat for Dutch Navy. As Dutch shipbuilders had not an experience of building of the similar small ships, lead TM51 was built by British builder "British Power Boat" under "ВРВ 70-feet" design. Buiilding was begun in 1939, boat was completed 6.11.1939 and at once has been transferred to the Netherlands because of fears that British Government requisitions her. 10 more boats were ordered to Gusto under British licence.

Boats had wooden hull with hard-chine contours designed by Scott-Paine, and were equipped by British aviation motors and British aviation guns in ring mounts and 450mm torpedo tubes.

Incomplete TM52, 53, 62-69 were captured by Germans on slipways and received names S201-210, but later transferred to Bulgaria (TM52, 53, 68 and 69) and Romania (TM62-67).

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

TM51 in May, 1940 was damaged in battle against German paratroopers at Willemsburg, but escaped to Britain. 11.7.1940 she was transferred to RN as MGB46, returned 7.3.1941, again commissioned by RN 25.11.1941 and till the war end used for training.