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MGB82 motor gun boats (12, 1941 / 1941)


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MGB86

Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding
MGB82 - 93 (ex-PTC1 - 12) Elco, Bayonne, USA: MGB82-93 2 - 3.1941 // 4 - 7.1941: MGB82-93

MGB90 (16.7.1941), MGB92 (16.7.1941)

none to USA 4-9/1945: MGB82-89, 91, 93


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

32 as designed

Displacement full, t45
Length, m21.3
Breadth, m6.30
Draught, m1.60
No of shafts3
Machinery

3 Packard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

4050

Max speed, kts

39

Fuel, t

petrol 13600 l

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk 2.4, 2 x 2 - 12.7/90, 2 DC

Complement17


Standard scale images


<i>MGB87</i> 1945
MGB87 1945


Graphics


<i>MGB86</i>
MGB86


Project history

Transferred to RN by lend-lease.

Modernizations

1941, all survived: - 2 x 2 - 12.7/90; + 2 x 2 - 12.7/62

1942-1943, most survived: + type 286PU or type 291U radar

Naval service

No significant events.