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MAS318 motor gun boat (1917)

very close MAS115 1918

Names

MAS318

Builders

Baglietto, Varazze: MAS318

Completed

12/1917: MAS318

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1926: MAS318

  

Displacement normal, t

19.9

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

17.5

Breadth, m

3.15

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) 200(18)

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 A1916, 1 x 1 - 6.5/115, 20 DC

Complement

10

Project history: MAS318 was built for private person in 1915 but not bought, was offered in 1916 by builder to Navy and bought in October, 1917.

Modernizations: 1918: - 1 x 1 - 76/40; + 1 x 1 - 57/43 N1887.

Naval service: No significant events.

 

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