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REGIA MARINA (ITALY)

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"Baglietto 12ton" type experimental motor torpedo / gun boat (1917)

nearly sister-boat MAS95 1917

Names

MAS203

Builders

Baglietto, Varazze: MAS203

Completed

8/1917: MAS203

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1922: MAS203

  

Displacement normal, t

as MGB: 12

as MTB: 12.9

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

16.0

Breadth, m

2.63

Draught, m

as MGB: 0.88

as MTB: 0.92

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Fiat petrol engines / 2 Rognini electric motors

Power, h. p.

460 / 10

Max speed, kts

26 / 4

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts) 200(24) / 20(4)

Armament

as MTB: 1 x 1 - 6.5/115, 2 - 450 TT, 10 DC

as MGB: 1 x 1 - 47/40 H1901, 1 x 1 - 6.5/115, 10 DC

Complement

8

Project history: So-called "12-ton" boats designed by A. Bisio (SVAN) and built by different builders in 1916-1918. Boats differed from each other by armaments and engines. Some (1, 4 and 6th series) were extra equipped with 10hp electric motors for silent running.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

 

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