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MA/SB1 motor ASW boats (5, 1939)


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

MA/SB1 - 5

British Power Boat, Hythe: MA/SB1-5

1939: MA/SB1-5

MA/SB3 (28.2.1941)

none

1941: MA/SB1, 2, 4

1942: MA/SB5



Technical data


Displacement standard, t

19

Displacement full, t 
Length, m18.3
Breadth, m4.24
Draught, m0.86
No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Napier petrol engines

Power, h. p.1100
Max speed, kts

25

Fuel, t

petrol 3360 l

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 2 - 7.7/94, 2 DCR (10)

Electronic equipmenttype 134 sonar
Complement9


Standard scale images


<i>nearly sister-boat MA/SB22</i> 1941
nearly sister-boat MA/SB22 1941


Project history

Anti-submarine variant of МТВ1 with twin-shaft less powerful machinery.

Modernizations

circa 1940, all: - 1 x 2 - 7.7/94; + 2 x 4 - 7.7/94

Naval service

all survived boats served as RAF SAR craft from 1941. MA/SB5 became controlled target CT08 in 1942 and sold in 1946.