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KRIEGSMARINE (GERMANY)

COASTAL FORCES

"MTSMA" type midget motor torpedo boats (1943-1945)

MTSMA500 1943

Names

80 units of SMA(B) type

97 units of SMA(C) type: MTSMA500 - 596

Builders

Baglietto, Varazze: SMA(B), 80 units

SIAI, Sesto Calende: SMA(C), MTSMA500-596

Commissioned

1943 - 1945: 49 units

Losses

137 units were incomplete

losses are unknown

Transfers

none

Discarding

unknown

 

Displacement standard, t

SMA(C): 1.9

Displacement full, t

SMA(B): 3.7

SMA(C): 3.3

Length, m

SMA(B): 8.80

SMA(C): 8.21

Breadth, m

2.32

Draught, m

0.70

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Alfa Romeo petrol engines

Power, h. p.

190

Max speed, kts

30

Fuel, t

petrol 500 l

Endurance, nm(kts) 115(30)

Armament

1 x 2 - 7.5/90 or 1 x 1 - 15/84, 1 - 450 TT, 2 DC

Complement

2

Project history: Ex-Italian boats. First group was captured on the stocks and latter was ordered by German navy. Wooden hulled.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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