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"Baglietto velocissimo" type motor torpedo boats (1941)

MAS451 1941

Names

MAS451, 452

Builders

Baglietto, Varazze: MAS451, 452

Completed

1 - 2.1941: MAS451, 452

Losses

MAS451 (26.7.1941), MAS452 (26.7.1941)

Transfers

none

Discarding

none

  

Displacement standard, t

20

Displacement full, t

24

Length, m

18.0

Breadth, m

4.78

Draught, m

1.56

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Isotta Fraschini petrol engines / 2 Alfa Romeo cruising petrol engines

Power, h. p.

2200 / 160

Max speed, kts

42 / 8

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts) 330(42)

Armament

1 x 1 - 13.2/76, 2 - 450 TT, 6 DC

Electronic equipment presumably hydrophone

Complement

11

Project history: Type "Baglietto fast": Development of MAS424. Except main Isotta-Fraschini engines, they had also 2 80hp Alpha-Romeo petrol engines for cruising (endurance under electric motors was 836(8)nm).

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

MAS451 1941

 

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