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KRIEGSMARINE (GERMANY)

COASTAL FORCES

S508 motor torpedo boats (1937/1943)

Names

S508 (ex-MAS525), S511 (ex-MAS522)

Builders

CRDA, Monfalcone, Italy: S508

Celli, Venezia, Italy: S511

Commissioned

1937 // 11.1943: S508, 511

Losses

S508: never commissioned

S511 (4.12.1943)

Transfers

Italy, 1946: S508 (MEB9)

Discarding

none

 

Displacement standard, t

22

Displacement full, t

24

Length, m

17.0

Breadth, m

4.40

Draught, m

1.25

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Isotta-Frascini Asso 1000 petrol engines / 2 Carraro D.8M petrol engines for cruising

Power, h. p.

2000 / 80

Max speed, kts

45 / 6

Fuel, t

petrol 3.2

Endurance, nm(kts) 1000(6)

Armament

1 x 1 - 20/65 M1935, 2 - 450 TT, 1 DCR (6)

Complement

9

Project history: Italian MAS525 and 522 were captured in September, 1943 and included to fleet list as S508 and S511.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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