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MTB539 fast attack craft (torpedo) (1, 1948)


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding
MTB539, 1948 - P1602 FPB1602 Saunders-Roe, Beaumaris: MTB539 1948: MTB539

none

none 1956: P1602


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

43

Displacement full, t50
Length, m21.9 pp 22.9 oa
Breadth, m6.00
Draught, m1.70
No of shafts3
Machinery

3 Packard petrol engines

Power, h. p.4050
Max speed, kts

42

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 2 - 20/70 Mk XII, 4 - 450 TT or 1 x 1 - 114/19 Mk I

Electronic equipmenttype 268U radar
Complement16


Project history

Aluminium alloy hulled, convertible MTB/MGB boat.

Modernizations

None

Naval service

No significant events.