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REGIA MARINA (ITALY)

COASTAL FORCES

"SVAN" type motor torpedo boats (1925-1927)

Names

MAS427 - 429

Builders

SVAN, Venezia: MAS427-429

Completed

1925 - 1927

Losses

MAS427 (?/?/1929)

Transfers

none

Discarding

1937: MAS428

1938: MAS429

  

Displacement standard, t

MAS427, 428: 31

MAS429: 30

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

MAS427, 428: 24.0

MAS429: 22.0

Breadth, m

4.00

Draught, m

1.30

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Isotta Fraschini petrol engines

Power, h. p.

1200

Max speed, kts

MAS427, 428: 26

MAS429: 28

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts) 300(26)

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/30 Armstrong 1914, 2 x 1 - 6.5/115, 2 - 450 TT, 10 DC

Complement

11

Project history: Large MTBs, ordered in 1923.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

 

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