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FINNISH NAVY (FINLAND)

COASTAL FORCES

MTV1 motor torpedo boats (1918/1920)

MTV1 1920

Names

MTV1 (ex-MAS220), 1930s- Sisu

MTV2 (ex-MAS221), 1930s- Hurja

Builders

Orlando, Leghorn, Italy: MTV1, 2

Completed

1918 // 1920: MTV1, 2

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1941: Hurja

1942: Sisu

 

 

Displacement normal, t

12.9

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

16.4

Breadth, m

2.80

Draught, m

1.40

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Isotta Fraschini petrol engines / 2 Rognini electric motors

Power, h. p.

500 / 10

Max speed, kts

26.5 / 4

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts) 150(26)

Armament

2 x 1 - 7.6/94, 2 - 450 TT

Complement

8

Project history: Built by Orlando for Italian Navy, bought by Finns in 1920. Wooden-hulled. Differed by bad seaworthiness, by 1940 speed was limited by 22kts.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

MTV2

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