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"ELCO 44ton" type ("C" group 3rd series) motor ASW boats (1918)

MAS274 1918

Names

MAS253 - 302

Builders

ELCO, Bayonne, USA: MAS253-302

Completed

1918: MAS253 - 302

Losses

MAS259 (2.1.1921), MAS261 (2.1.1921), MAS262 (28.9.1927), MAS264 (4.7.1918), MAS266 (14.9.1927), MAS293 (25.3.1919)

Transfers

Rumania 1920: MAS268, 273 (M1, 2)

Discarding

1919: MAS254

1920: MAS296

1921: MAS286

1922: MAS253, 255, 257, 272, 274 - 276, 278, 285, 290, 301

1924: MAS287, 288, 295

1925: MAS282, 294

1926: MAS267, 277, 281, 283

1927: MAS269, 284, 299, 300, 302

1928: MAS258, 280, 289, 292

1929: MAS256, 260, 263, 265, 270, 271, 279, 291, 297, 298

  

Displacement normal, t

40.6

Displacement full, t

43.8

Length, m

24.4

Breadth, m

3.71

Draught, m

1.20

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Standard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

460

Max speed, kts

15 - 17

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts) 900(14)

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 A1916, 1 x 1 - 6.5/115, 10 DC

Electronic equipment most: hydrophone

Complement

15

Project history: One of the most mass-built motor boats of WWI-era. They were designed by ELCO. They were delivered from USA onboard merchant vessels. The majority have been equipped by hydrophone. Differed by high endurance.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

MAS260 1918

 

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