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HM MTB-314
ex-BPT-8
ex-PT-56



Call sign:
Nan - Able - Jig - Uncle


PT-56 served the Navies of Great Britian and Germany.
77' Elco Motor Torpedo Boat:

  • Laid down 15 July 1941 as PT-56 by the Electric Boat Co., Elco Works, Bayonne, NJ
  • Launched 25 September 1941
  • Completed 28 February 1942
  • Transferred to Great Britain as BPT-8, 28 February 1942
  • Reclassified as HM MTB-314
  • Assigned to the 10th/15th MTB Flotilla
  • Lost by grounding and abandoned during raid on Tobruk, Lybia (Operation Agreement), 14 September 1942
  • Salvaged and became the German Motor Minesweeper, RA 10
  • Sunk by British aircraft off La Goulette, Tunisia 30 September 1943.

    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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