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MTB259 motor torpedo boats (10, 1940 / 1941)


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PT10 on trials

Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding
MTB259 - 268 (ex-PT10 - 19) Elco, Bayonne, USA: MTB259-268 11 - 12.1940 // 3.1941: MTB259-268

MTB259 (14.6.1942), MTB261 (26.8.1945), MTB262 (24.2.1943), MTB264 (10.5.1943), MTB267 (2.4.1943)

None to USA 3.1946: MTB260, 263, 265, 266, 268


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

32

Displacement full, t 
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

2 х 2 - 12.7/90, 2 x 2 - 7.7/87, 2 - 533 TT, 2 DC

Complement17


Standard scale images


<i>MTB263</i> 1941
MTB263 1941


Graphics


<i>PT10</i> on trials
PT10 on trials


Project history

Ex-USN boats.

Modernizations

1942-1943, many survived: + type 286PU radar

1943-1944, many survived: - type 286PU radar; + type 291U radar

Naval service

No significant events.