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MTB258 motor torpedo boat (1, 1940 / 1941)


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PT9

Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding
MTB258 (ex-PT9) British Power Boat, Hythe: MTB258 1940 // 4.1941: MTB258

None

None to USA 1946: MTB258


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

30

Displacement full, t 
Length, m21.3
Breadth, m6.30
Draught, m1.60
No of shafts3
Machinery

3 Packard petrol engines

Power, h. p.4050
Max speed, kts

39

Fuel, t

petrol 13600 l

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 2 - 12.7/90, 2 x 2 - 7.7/87, 2 - 533 TT, 2 DC

Complement17


Graphics


<i>PT9</i>
PT9


Project history

Ex-USN. Lend-lease.

Modernizations

1942-1943, presumably: + type 286PU radar

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

Naval service

No significant events.