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COASTAL FORCES
HAMZA motor launches (1940-1945/1948-1950)


Ships


Names Builders Commissioned Losses Transfers Discarding

5 boats:

2 unknown

حمزة [Hamza] (ex-ML134)

ساب البحر [Sab el Bahr]

صقر البحر [Saker al Bahar]

UK: 5 boats

1940-1945 // 1948-1950: 5 boats

1 boat (1949-50), 1 boat (1949-50)

none

late 1960s: Hamza, Sab el Bahr, Saker al Bahar



Technical data


Displacement standard, t

75.5

Displacement full, t85.6
Length, m34.8
Breadth, m5.59
Draught, m1.45 deep load
No of shafts2
Machinery

2 Hall-Scott petrol engines

Power, h. p.1200
Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, t

petrol 10500 l

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 47/40 Mk II, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Mk V, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 2 DCT (6), 14 DC or 8 - 9 mines

Electronic equipment

type 291U or 970 radar, type 134 sonar

Complement16


Standard scale images


<i>Hamza </i>1955
Hamza 1955


Project history

Former British 'Fairmile B' class motor launches.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.