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Gunboat of the Royal Navy
History United Kingdom 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 Propulsion
3 × shaft petrol engines
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 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 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]
Loss [ ] HM MGB 501 was lost off Land's End on 27 July 1942, after an internal explosion.[1]
Notes [ ]
^ a b Cocker, Maurice (2006). Coastal Forces Vessels of the Royal Navy from 1865 . Stroud: Tempus Publ. p. 121. ISBN 9780752438627
Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in July 1942
Shipwrecks
1 Jul: Edward Luckenbach Montevideo Maru 3 Jul: Alexander Macomb U-215 4 Jul: Nenohi Christopher Newport 5 Jul: Arare Empire Byron HMS Niger , River Afton John Randolph 6 Jul: Avila Star U-502 7 Jul: RFA Aldersdale , Fiddown Hartlebury Pan Kraft U-701 9 Jul: Empire Explorer Nicholas Cuneo Santa Rita 10 Jul: El Capitan 11 Jul: U-136 13 Jul: U-153 R. W. Gallagher 14 Jul: Pietro Calvi Shch-317 15 Jul: Empire Attendant HMHS Gloucester Castle , U-576 16 Jul: Fairport Komintern 17 Jul: U-751 22 Jul: Ayatosan Maru USS Southern Seas 24 Jul: Toufic El Rahman U-90 26 Jul: Oaxaca 27 Jul: HM Motor Gun Boat 501 28 Jul: Broompark 30 Jul: Robert E. Lee U-166 31 Jul: USS Grunion , U-213 U-588 U-754 Other incidents 1941 1942 1943 June 1942 August 1942
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