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"Orlando 12ton" type ("A" group 2nd series) motor torpedo / gun boats (1918)

nearly sister-boat MAS95 1917

Names

MAS218 - 232

Builders

Orlando, Livorno: MAS218-232

Completed

1918: MAS218 - 230

1919: MAS231, 232

Losses

none

Transfers

Finland 1920: MAS220, 221 (MTV1, 2)

China 1921: MAS226, 227 (KUAI1, 2)

Sweden 1921: MAS231, 232 (N1, 2)

Nationalist Spain 4.1937: MAS223 (Sicilia)

Discarding

1926: MAS218

1929: MAS224, 225

1937: MAS219, 222, 228 - 230

  

Displacement normal, t

as MGB: 11.8

Displacement full, t

as MGB: 12

as MTB: 12.9

Length, m

16.4

Breadth, m

2.89

Draught, m

as MGB: 1.35

as MTB: 1.41

No of shafts

2

Machinery

MAS218 - 222, 228: 2 Isotta Fraschini petrol engines / 2 Rognini electric motors

MAS223 - 227, 229 - 232: 2 Isotta Fraschini petrol engines

Power, h. p.

MAS218 - 222, 228: 500 / 10

MAS223 - 227, 229 - 232: 500

Max speed, kts

MAS218 - 222, 228: 26 / 4

MAS223 - 227, 229 - 232: 26

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts) 200(26) / 16(4)

Armament

as MTB: (2 - 3) x 1 - 6.5/115, 2 - 450 TT, 4 DC

as MA/SB: 1 x 1 - 57/43 N1887, 1 x 1 - 6.5/115, 2 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.

MAS230 1919

 

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