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MTB50 motor torpedo boats (1941/1941-1942)


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MTB50 1941

Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

MTB50-52

MTB54

MTB56

Thornycroft, Woolston, UK: MTB50-52, 54, 56

4-12/1941 // 7.1941-2/1942: MTB50-52, 54, 56

None

UK, 6.1942: MTB50-52, 54, 56

None



Technical data


Displacement standard, t

37

Displacement full, t

52

Length, m

23.0

Breadth, m

5.18

Draught, m

1.00 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

4 Thornycroft petrol engines

Power, h. p.

2600

Max speed, kts

25.3 - 29 on trials

Fuel, t

petrol 8410 - 9090 l

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 2 - 12.7/62, 2 x 1 - 7.7/94, 2 - 533 TT, 2 DC or 4 mines

Complement

10 - 12



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<i>MTB50</i> 1941
MTB50 1941


Project history

Former British wooden Thornycroft 75ft MTBs. All were returned to UK, and their crews were gone to "Fairmile D" type MTBs.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.