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MGB177 motor gun boats (16, 1943 / 1943 - 1944)


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

MGB177 (ex-PT206)

MGB178-180 (ex-PT214-216)

MGB181 (ex-PT201)

MGB182 (ex-PT204)

MGB183-185 (ex-PT207-209)

MGB186 (ex-PT211)

MGB187 (ex-PT213)

MGB188 (ex-PT217)

MGB189 (ex-PT203)

MGB190 (ex-PT205)

MGB191 (ex-PT210)

MGB192 (ex-PT212)

Higgins, New Orleans, USA: MGB177-192

1 - 12.1943 // 1943 - 1944: MGB177-192

none

Yugoslavia, 1945: MGB181 - 188 (MT1 - 8)

1944: MGB180, 189, 190, 192

1945 - 1947: MGB177-179, 191



Technical data


Displacement standard, t

46

Displacement full, t54
Length, m23.9
Breadth, m6.12
Draught, m1.60
No of shafts3
Machinery

3 Packard petrol engines

Power, h. p.4050
Max speed, kts

39

Fuel, t

petrol 13000 l

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk 2.4, 4 x 2 - 12.7/90, DC

Electronic equipmentSO radar
Complement17


Standard scale images


<i>MGB177</i> 1944
MGB177 1944


Project history

Ex-US. Lend-lease.

Modernizations

none.

Naval service

MGB180, 189, 190, 192 became controlled targets CT43, CT40, CT41 and CT42 in 1944. CT43 was transferred later to Turkey.