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S510 motor torpedo boats (1941-1943/1943)

S510 1943

Names

S510 (ex-MAS551), S512 (ex-MAS553), S513 (ex-MAS554)

Builders

CNA, Roma, Italy: S510

CRDA, Monfalcone, Italy: S512, 513

Commissioned

1941 // 10.1943: S513

1943 // 9.1943: S510

Losses

S512: never commissioned

Transfers

S510 (24.5.1945)

Discarding

S513: fate unknown

 

Displacement standard, t

25

Displacement full, t

28.3

Length, m

18.7

Breadth, m

4.60

Draught, m

1.47

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Isotta-Frascini ASM183 petrol engines / 2 Alfa Romeo 2500 petrol engines for cruising

Power, h. p.

2300 / 140

Max speed, kts

43 / 8.5

Fuel, t

petrol 3.6

Endurance, nm(kts) 850(8)

Armament

1 x 1 - 20/65 M1940, 2 - 450 TT, 1 DCR (10)

Complement

10

Project history: Italian MAS551, 553 and 554 were captured in September, 1943 and commissioned by Germans as S510, 512 and 513.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: S510 was transferred to RSI in spring 1944 and sunk 22.5.1944. Fate of S513 is unknown.

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