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History
UK
Name501
BuilderCamper & Nicholson (Gosport)
Completed1942
FateSank after an internal explosion, off Lands End, on 27 July 1942
General characteristics
Class and typeMotor Gun Boat
Displacement95 long tons (97 t)
Length117 ft (36 m)
Beam19 ft 6 in (5.94 m)
Draught4 ft 6 in (1.37 m) fully laden
Propulsion
  • 3 × shaft petrol enginges
  • 3,750 bhp (2,800 kW)
Speed
  • 32 knots (59 km/h) (max)
  • 29 knots (54 km/h) (cruising)
Range2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km) at 11 kn (20 km/h)
Complement21
Armament
  • Designed:
  • 1 × 3-pounder
  • 1 × 2-pounder
  • 2 × 21-inch torpedo tubes
  • Actual:
  • 1 × 2-pounder
  • 1 × 20mm
  • 4 × .5 inch machine guns
NotesCocker, Maurice (2006). Coastal Forces Vessels of the Royal Navy from 1865. Stroud: Tempus Publ. p. 121. ISBN 9780752438627.

HM Motor Gun Boat 501 was a Motor Gun Boat operated by Royal Navy Coastal Forces during the Second World War. She was initially built as a combined anti-submarine boat and motor torpedo boat, but instead was completed as a motor gun boat.[1]

Loss

HM MGB 501 was lost off Land's End on 27 July 1942, after an internal explosion.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Cocker, Maurice (2006). Coastal Forces Vessels of the Royal Navy from 1865. Stroud: Tempus Publ. p. 121. ISBN 9780752438627.

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