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"Baglietto velocissimo" type motor torpedo boat (1937)

MAS424 1937

Names

MAS424

Builders

Baglietto, Varazze: MAS424

Completed

12/1937: MAS424

Losses

MAS424 (9.9.1943, later German S624)

Transfers

none

Discarding

none

  

Displacement standard, t

19

Displacement full, t

21

Length, m

16.5

Breadth, m

4.25

Draught, m

1.20

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Isotta Fraschini petrol engines

Power, h. p.

2000

Max speed, kts

45

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts) 350(39)

Armament

1 x 1 - 6.5/115, 2 - 450 TT, 6 DC

Electronic equipment presumably hydrophone

Complement

8

Project history: Type «Baglietto experimental class 500», development of "Baglietto 1931" type. The jumboizing has allowed to raise endurance in three times, and speed was moderated slightly. On this boat the construction and technichs were tested, later used on boats of "500" series. MTB received number 424 from a boat of "SVAN 13-ton fast" type boat lost in 1937.

Modernizations: 1940: - 1 x 1 - 6.5/115; + 1 x 1 - 13.2/76.

Naval service: No significant events.

 

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