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GC8 motor patrol launch (1941)


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GC8 1951

Ships


Names Builders Commissioned Losses Transfers Discarding

GC8

Santo Domingo: GC8

1941: GC8

none

none

early 1960s: GC8



Technical data


Displacement standard, t

28 trials

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m19.0
Breadth, m3.66
Draught, m1.22
No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 petrol engine

Power, h. p.200
Max speed, kts10
Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 7.6/90

Complement10


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<i>GC8 </i>1951
GC8 1951


Project history

Built in Dominican republic in 1941, was used also as buoy tender. Wooden hull.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.