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MMS51 motor minesweeper (1938)


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MMS51 on trials

Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

MMS51

British Power Boat, Hythe: MMS51 1938: MMS51

none

none 1939: MMS51 was converted to MTB100


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

18

Displacement full, t22
Length, m18.3
Breadth, m4.04
Draught, m0.86 deep load
No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Napier petrol engines

Power, h. p.1500
Max speed, kts

25

Fuel, t

petrol 4360 l

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 1 - 7.7/94, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement9


Graphics


<i>MMS51</i> on trials
MMS51 on trials


Project history

Experimental boat was converted to MTB in 1939 - 1940.

Modernizations

1940: - minesweeping gear; + 2 - 450 TT, 6 DC.

Naval service

No significant events.