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MAS1D motor torpedo boats (1928/1941)

MAS1D 1941

Names

MAS1D (ex-Ускок [Uskok])

MAS2D (ex-Четник [Četnik]), 1942- MS47

Builders

Thornycroft, Woolston, UK: MAS1D, 2D

Completed

1928 // 4.1941: MAS1D, 2D

Losses

MAS1D (19.4.1942)

Transfers

none

Discarding

9/1943: MS47

  

Displacement standard, t

15

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

16.8

Breadth, m

3.35

Draught, m

1.30

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Thornycroft petrol engines

Power, h. p.

750

Max speed, kts

37

Fuel, t

petrol 1.6

Endurance, nm(kts) 220(32)

Armament

2 x 1 - 7.7/87, 2 - 450 TT, 4 DC

Complement

5

Project history: Former Yugoslavian MTBs Uskok and Četnik built by Thornycroft. They were captured by Italians in April, 1941 and commissioned by Regia Marina as MAS1D and 2D. TTs were replaced by Italian-made.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

 

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