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S509 motor torpedo boat (1939/1943)

S509 1944

Names

S509 (ex-MAS549)

Builders

CRDA, Monfalcone, Italy: S509

Commissioned

1939 // 9.1943: S509

Losses

S509 (22.5.1944)

Transfers

none

Discarding

none

 

Displacement standard, t

21

Displacement full, t

23

Length, m

18.7

Breadth, m

4.60

Draught, m

1.30

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Isotta-Frascini Asso 1000 petrol engines / 2 Carraro CDM petrol engines for cruising

Power, h. p.

2000 / 100

Max speed, kts

42 / 6.5

Fuel, t

petrol 3.9

Endurance, nm(kts) 1000(6)

Armament

1 x 1 - 13.2/76, 2 - 450 TT, 1 DCR (6)

Complement

10

Project history: Italian MAS549 was captured in September, 1943 and commissioned by Germans as S509.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: S509 was transferred to RSI in spring 1944 and sunk 22.5.1944.

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