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MTB24 motor torpedo boats (11, 1939 - 1941)


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  MTB50 1941  

Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

MTB24 - 25

MTB28

MTB49 - 56

Thornycroft, Woolston: MTB24-25, 28, 49-56

12/1939: MTB24

1-7/1940: MTB25, 28

4-12/1941: MTB49 - 56

MTB28 (7.3.1941)

Norway 1941 - 1942: MTB50, 51, 53, 54, 56 (all returned 1942)

1943: MTB49 - 56

10/1945: MTB24, 25



Technical data


Displacement standard, t

37

Displacement full, t

43

MTB49 - 56: 52

Length, m

22.6

MTB49 - 56: 23.0

Breadth, m

5.05

MTB49 - 56: 5.18

Draught, m

1.00 deep load

No of shafts

3

MTB49 - 56: 2

Machinery

2 Isotta-Fraschini petrol engines

MTB49 - 56: 4 Thornycroft petrol engines

Power, h. p.

3450

MTB49 - 56: 2600

Max speed, kts

42.7 on trials

MTB49 - 56: 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

Wooden hull.

Modernizations

1942, MTB24, 25: were re-engined with 3 Packard engines (3600hp)

1943-1944, may be some: + type 291U radar

1943 - 1945, MTB24, 25: - 1 x 2 - 12.7/62; + 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

Naval service

1943: MTB49 - 56 were converted to aircraft target tugs Meggido, Menin, Messines, Marne, Mons, Montaubn, Morval and Nablus.