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"ELCO 44ton type ("C" group 2nd series) motor ASW boats (1918)

nearly sister-boat MAS274 1918

Names

MAS103 - 108

MAS109, 2.1921- MAS104

MAS110, 111

MAS112, 2.1921- MAS264

MAS113, 114

Builders

Elco, Bayonne, USA: MAS103-114

Completed

1918: MAS103 - 114

Losses

MAS104 (8.5.1918), MAS108 (18.11.1925)

Transfers

none

Discarding

1922: MAS106

1924: MAS111, 114

1925: MAS103, 107

1928: MAS104(ii), 264(ii)

1929: MAS105, 110, 113

  

Displacement normal, t

40.6

Displacement full, t

43.8

Length, m

24.4

Breadth, m

3.71

Draught, m

1.20

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Standard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

460

Max speed, kts

15 - 17

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts) 900(14)

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/30 A1914, (1 - 2) x 1 - 6.5/115, 10 DC

Electronic equipment most: hydrophone

Complement

15

Project history: One of the most mass-built motor boats of WWI-era. They were designed by ELCO. They were delivered from USA onboard merchant vessels. The majority have been equipped by hydrophone. Differed by high endurance.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

 

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