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"ELCO 44ton" type ("C" group 4th series) motor ASW boats (1918-1919)

nearly sister-boat MAS274 1918

Names

MAS377 - 394

MAS395, 8.1926- Roma, 6.1927- MAS395

MAS396

Builders

ELCO, Bayonne, USA: MAS377-396

Completed

1918: MAS377 - 390

1919: MAS391 - 396

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1919: MAS378, 394

1920: MAS379, 380

1921: MAS382

1922: MAS388, 393

1923: MAS384

1925: MAS383

1927: MAS377, 386

1928: MAS381, 385, 392

1929: MAS387, 389 - 391, 395, 396

  

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.

 

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