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"ELCO 44ton" type ("C" group 3rd series) motor ASW boats (MAS434)

nearly sister-boat MAS303 1918

Names

MAS434-463?

Builders

Gallinari, Livorno: MAS434-443?

Picchiotti, Limite sull`Arno: MAS444-449?

R. Cantiere di Castellamare di Stabia: MAS450-463?

Completed

none

Losses

cancelled: all

Transfers

none

Discarding

none

  

Displacement normal, t

42.8

Displacement full, t

44.6

Length, m

24.4 pp

Breadth, m

3.75

Draught, m

1.31

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Standard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

460

Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts) 900(16)

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 A1916, (1 - 2) 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. ELCO design, modified by the Subdirection of naval construction af Arsenale di Castellamare di Stabia. The majority have been equipped by hydrophone. All were cancelled after Armistice.

 

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