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"SVAN 12ton modified" type ("A" group 1st series) motor torpedo boats (1919)

nearly sister-boat MAS95 1917

Names

MAS319 - 323

Builders

SVAN, La Spezia: MAS319-323

Completed

9/1919: MAS319 - 321

Losses

cancelled 6.1920: MAS322, 323

Transfers

none

Discarding

1920: MAS321

1928: MAS319

1931: MAS320

  

Displacement normal, t

11.4

Displacement full, t

14.2

Length, m

16.0

Breadth, m

2.86

Draught, m

1.20

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Isotta Fraschini petrol engines

Power, h. p.

700

Max speed, kts

28

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts) 180(26)

Armament

(2 - 3) x 1 - 6.5/115, 2 - 450 TT, 4 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.

 

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