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S2 WILCZUR motor gunboats (1940 / 1940)


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S2 and S3

Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

S2 Wilczur (ex-MGB44, ex-MA/SB44)

S3 Wyzel (ex-MGB45, ex-MA/SB45)

British Power Boat, Hythe, UK: S2 Wilczur, S3 Wyzel

1940 // 7.1940: S2 Wilczur, S3 Wyzel

S3 Wyzel (CTL 20.5.1943)

none

7.1944: S2 Wilczur



Technical data


Displacement standard, t

24

Displacement full, t31
Length, m19.2
Breadth, m5.00
Draught, m1.08
No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Rolls-Royce petrol engines

Power, h. p.2200
Max speed, kts

36

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII, 2 x 2 - 12.7/62, 2 DC

Complement10


Graphics


<i>S2</i> and <i>S3</i>
S2 and S3


Project history

Submarine chasers in hulls of MTBs, ordered by Sweden and Norway, requisitioned by British after war begun. Two of them were transferred to Polish Navy.

Modernizations

1943-1944, presumably: + type 286PU or type 291U radar

Naval service

No significant events.