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"SVAN 12ton modified Pecoraro" motor torpedo boat (MAS324)

nearly sister-boat MAS95 1917

Names

MAS324

Builders

SVAN, La Spezia: MAS324

Completed

none

Losses

cancelled 6.1920: MAS324

Transfers

none

Discarding

none

  

Displacement normal, t

12

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

16.0

Breadth, m

3.20

Draught, m

1.20

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Sterling petrol engines

Power, h. p.

400

Max speed, kts

23

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

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

as MGB: 1 x 1 - 57/43 N1887, (1 - 2) x 1 - 6.5/115, 4 DC

Complement

10

Project history: MAS324 was designed bv Eng Captain Nino Pecoraro, modifying the 12 ton SVAN boat. The construction was slow, because the SVAN yards were full of work. So, the boat, even if ordered on 1 September 1917, was perhaps not laid down, and the order was cancelled on 19 June 1920.

 

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