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"SVAN 19ton type ("B" group 1st series) motor gun boats (1918)

MAS115 1918

Names

MAS115 - 139

Builders

SVAN, Piacenza / Arsenale di Venezia: MAS115, 116, 119, 120, 122

SVAN, Piacenza / SVAN, La Spezia: MAS117, 118, 123 - 139

SVAN, La Spezia: MAS121

Completed

1918: MAS115 - 139

Losses

MAS125 (9.8.1918), MAS133 (1.6.1927), MAS135 (22.4.1919)

Transfers

none

Discarding

1921: MAS134

1922: MAS115 - 117, 119 - 122, 127

1925: MAS131, 137, 139

1926: MAS118, 126, 129, 132, 136, 138

1927: MAS130

1928: MAS123, 124, 128

  

Displacement normal, t

19

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

18.0

Breadth, m

3.20

Draught, m

1.20

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Isotta-Fraschini petrol engines

Power, h. p.

500

Max speed, kts

21 - 23

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts) 300(18)

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/30 A1914, 1 x 1 - 6.5/115, 20 DC

Electronic equipment hydrophone

Complement

12

Project history: Boats were arranged with hydrophone and used as anti-submarine.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Nearly all boats were completed in SVAN Yard at Piacenza and armed in the Arsenale di Venezia.

MAS120 1918

 

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