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ARGENTINA
COASTAL FORCES
LT1 motor torpedo boats (1948)


Ships


Names Builders Commissioned Losses Transfers Discarding

P80 LT1

P81 LT2

P82 LT3, 1972- P82 Towora

P83 LT4

P84 LT5, 1972- P84 Alakush

P85 LT6

P86 LT7

P87 LT8

P88 LT9

P89 LT10

Higgins, New Orleans, USA: LT1 - 10

1948: LT1 - 10

None

None

1955: LT6

1959: LT10

1963: LT1

1965: LT2, 4, 9

1966: LT7, 8

1984: Towora, Alakush



Technical data


Displacement normal, t

36

Displacement full, t50
Length, m

23.8

Breadth, m

6.40

Draught, m

1.50

No of shafts

3

Machinery3 Packard petrol engines
Power, h. p.4500
Max speed, kts

42

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)1000(20)
Armament

2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 4 - 533 TC

Electronic equipmentSO radar
Complement

10



Standard scale images


<i>LT5 </i>1963
LT5 1963


Project history

Higgins MTBs built specially for Argentina.

Modernizations

1972, Towora, Alakush: - 4 - 533 TC; + 4 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2 x 8 - 127 RL

Naval service

No significant events.