HM Motor Gun Boat 501

History
UK
Name: 501
Builder: Camper & Nicholson (Gosport)
Completed: 1942
Fate: Sank after an internal explosion, off Lands End, on 27 July 1942
General characteristics
Class and type: Motor Gun Boat
Displacement: 95 long tons (97 t)
Length: 117 ft (36 m)
Beam: 19 ft 6 in (5.94 m)
Draught: 4 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)
Range: 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km) at 11 kn (20 km/h)
Complement: 21
Armament:
  • Designed:
  • 1 × 3-pounder
  • 1 × 2-pounder
  • 2 × 21-inch torpedo tubes
  • Actual:
  • 1 × 2-pounder
  • 1 × 20mm
  • 4 × .5 inch machine guns
Notes: Cocker, 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. 1 2 Cocker, Maurice (2006). Coastal Forces Vessels of the Royal Navy from 1865. Stroud: Tempus Publ. p. 121. ISBN 9780752438627.

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