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COASTAL FORCES

"SVAN 19ton" type ("B" group 2nd series) motor gun boats (1918-1919)

very close MAS115 1918

Names

MAS233 - 252

Builders

Ducrot, Palermo: MAS233 - 252

Completed

1918: MAS233 - 245

1919: MAS246 - 252

Losses

MAS240 (28.10.1918)

Transfers

none

Discarding

1922: MAS233 - 235, 239, 241, 242, 246

1926: MAS238, 244, 245, 247, 248, 251, 252

1927: MAS236

1929: MAS237, 243, 249, 250

  

Displacement normal, t

19.4

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

18.0

Breadth, m

3.30

Draught, m

1.20

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Isotta Fraschini petrol engines

Power, h. p.

500

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts) 280(18)

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 A1916, 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: No significant events.

 

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