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Motor Torpedo Boat Photo Archive

HM MTB-307
ex-BPT-1
ex-PT-49



Call sign:
Nan - William - Love - King


PT-49 served the Navies of Great Britian and Italy.
77' Motor Torpedo Boat:

  • Laid down 12 June 1941 as PT-49 by the Electric Boat Co., Elco Works, Bayonne, NJ
  • Launched 26 August 1941
  • Completed 20 January 1942
  • Transferred to Great Britain as BPT-1, 4 February 1942
  • Reclassified as HM MTB-307
  • Transferred to Italy in February 1947 at Palermo, Sicily
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 40 t.
  • Length 77'
  • Beam 19' 11"
  • Draft 4' 6"
  • Speed 41 kts.
  • Complement 15
  • Armament: Two twin .50 cal. Browning M2 machine guns in Dewandre turrets and four 18" torpedoes
  • Propulsion: Three 3,600shp Packard V12 M2500 gasoline engines, three shafts.
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