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MGB69 motor gun boats (12, 1940 - 1941 / 1941 - 1942)


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MGB100

Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

MGB69 - 73 (ex-RB1 - 5)

MGB100 - 106 (ex-RB6 - 12)

Higgins, New Orleans, USA: MGB69-73, 100-106

1940 - 1941 // 1941 - 1942: MGB69-73, 100-106

none

none

to USA 1946: MGB69-73, 100-106



Technical data


Displacement standard, t

30

Displacement full, t 
Length, m 
Breadth, m 
Draught, m 
No of shafts3
Machinery

3 petrol engines

Power, h. p. 
Max speed, kts

27

Fuel, t

petrol

Armament

1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 2 - 12.7/62, DC

Complement 


Graphics


<i>MGB100</i>
MGB100


Project history

ex-Finnish (first 5) and French MLs, requisitioned by the USN after war begun. Transferred to RN by lend-lease.

Modernizations

1942-1943, most: + type 286PU or type 291U radar

Naval service

No significant events.