HM Motor Gun Boat 501
HM Motor Gun Boat 501 was a motor gunboat 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]
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| Name | MGB 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 gunboat |
| 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 |
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| Speed | |
| Range | 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km) at 11 kn (20 km/h) |
| Complement | 21 |
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| Notes | Cocker, Maurice (2006). Coastal Forces Vessels of the Royal Navy from 1865. Stroud: Tempus Publ. p. 121. ISBN 9780752438627. |
Loss
HM MGB 501 was lost off Land's End on 27 July 1942, after an internal explosion.[1]
Notes
- Cocker, Maurice (2006). Coastal Forces Vessels of the Royal Navy from 1865. Stroud: Tempus Publ. p. 121. ISBN 9780752438627.
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