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"Baglietto 12ton" type ("A" group) motor torpedo / gun boats (1918)

nearly sister-boat MAS95 1917

Names

MAS204 - 217

Builders

Baglietto, Varazze: MAS204-217

Completed

1918: MAS204 - 217

Losses

MAS204 (8.4.1941), MAS206 (8.4.1941), MAS208 (15.4.1934), MAS210 (8.4.1941), MAS213 (8.4.1941), MAS216 (8.4.1941)

Transfers

none

Discarding

1922: MAS205, 207, 209, 211, 214, 215

1935: MAS217

1939: MAS212

  

Displacement normal, t

as MGB: 11.8

as MTB: 12

Displacement full, t

as MGB: 13.4

as MTB: 13.9

Length, m

16.0

Breadth, m

2.63

Draught, m

as MGB: 1.08

as MTB: 1.10

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Fiat petrol engines / 2 Rognini electric motors

MAS217: 2 Fiat petrol engines

Power, h. p.

480 / 10

MAS217: 480

Max speed, kts

23 - 24 / 4

MAS217: 23 - 24

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)

220(23) / 20(4)

Armament

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

as MGB: 1 x 1 - 57/43 N1887, 1 x 1 - 6.5/115, 10 DC

Complement

7

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. During WWII survived MTBs reached no more than 10-15kts for no longer than 1 hour.

Modernizations: 1926, all survived: electric motors were removed, Fiat engines were replaced by Isotta Fraschini ones (700hp, 27kts, 230(10)nm); - 1 x 1 - 57/43.

Naval service: No significant events.

 

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