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PT809 1952

Ships

Names	Builders	Commissioned	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
PT809	Electric Boat, Groton: PT809	2/1951: PT809	none	none	11.1959: PT809

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement full, t	47
Length, m	29.9
Breadth, m	8.08
Draught, m	1.68
No of shafts	4
Machinery	4 Packard diesels
Power, h. p.	10000
Max speed, kts	46
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 1 x 1 - 81/12 M29 mortar, 4 - 572 TR (never really carried), 4 DC
Electronic equipment
Complement	17

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Project history

PT809-812 were intended to embody wartime design lessons. All were aluminium; 809 was riveted, 810 riveted and welded, and 811 and 812 all-welded; each was designed to mount two single 40mm guns (one in 812), two twin 20mm, one 81mm mortar, one Mk 107 rocket launcher (812 only), four torpedo racks, and four depth charge racks; speed was set at 46kts (43 for the somewhat longer 812). Although these figures represented a considerable advance on Second World War practice, they still did not make up for the lack of an operational requirement for such coastal craft.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

: PT809 in November 1959 became a civil defence boat Guardian served for escort Presidential yachts and was placed out of service only in 1988.

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