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MTB202 KEMPHAAN motor torpedo boats (1942/1942, 1942)


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  MTB208 1940

Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

MTB202 Kemphaan

MTB203 Arend

MTB204 Valk

White, Cowes, UK: MTB202-204

3/1942 // 8.1942: MTB202 Kemphaan

3-8/1942: MTB203 Arend, MTB204 Valk

MTB203 Arend (18.5.1944)

United Kingdom, 9.1944: MTB202 Kemphaan (MTB202), MTB204 Valk (MTB204)

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Technical data


Displacement standard, t40.5
Displacement full, t49
Length, m22.1
Breadth, m5.84
Draught, m1.26 deep load
No of shafts3
Machinery

3 Sterling petrol engines

Power, h. p.3600
Max speed, kts36
Fuel, t

petrol 11560 l

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament1 x 2 - 12.7/62, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 2 - 533 TT, 2 - 4 DC
Electronic equipmenttype 286U or type 286PU radar
Complement12


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  <i>MTB208</i> 1940
  MTB208 1940


Project history

Wooden hull. Standard White`s MTBs, close on a construction to Vosper boats. MTB203 and 204 were transferred right after completion, and MTB202 was transferred from structure of British 8th MTB flotilla. In Dutch service MTBs received names of birds which, however, practically were not used.

Modernizations

1943 - 1944, all: - 1 x 2 - 12.7/62; + 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

Naval service

No significant events.