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VTB1 motor torpedo boats (1928 - 1929)


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

VTB1 - 7

Thornycroft, Hampton, UK: VTB1

A C de la Loire, Nantes: VTB2 - 7

1928 - 1929: VTB1-7

VTB1 (captured by UK 3.7.1940), VTB2 (captured by UK 3.7.1940), VTB3 (18.6.1940)

none

late 1930s: VTB4 - 7



Technical data


Displacement standard, t

11

Displacement full, t 
Length, m18.3
Breadth, m3.40
Draught, m0.90
No of shafts2
Machinery2 petrol engines
Power, h. p.900
Max speed, kts

40

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament1 x 1 - 8.80, 2 - 400 TT
Complement5


Standard scale images


<i>CMB.24A </i>1918
CMB.24A 1918


Project history

presumably standard Thornycroft "CMB-55" type (m. b. nearly improved).

Modernizations

None.

Fate Notes

At the outbreak of war three boats were still used for training.