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"SVAN 12ton type ("A" group 2nd series) motor gun boats (1917)

MAS53 1917

Names

MAS53 - 57

Builders

SVAN, Venezia: MAS53-57

Completed

1917: MAS53 - 57

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1926: MAS55

1927: MAS53

1929: MAS54, 56, 57

  

Displacement normal, t

11.4

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

16.0

Breadth, m

2.63

Draught, m

1.20

No of shafts

2

Machinery

MAS53: 2 Isotta-Fraschini petrol engines

MAS54 - 57: 2 Sterling petrol engines

Power, h. p.

MAS53: 450

MAS54 - 57: 400

Max speed, kts

MAS53: 24

MAS54 - 57: 23.2 - 24

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts) 150(24)

Armament

1 x 1 - 47/40 H1901, 1 x 1 - 6.5/115, 6 DC

Complement

8

Project history: So-called "12-ton" boats designed by A. Bisio (SVAN) and built by different builders in 1916-1918. Boats differed from each other by armaments and engines. Some (1, 4 and 6th series) were extra equipped with 10hp electric motors for silent running.

Modernizations: 1918, MAS53: - 1 x 1 - 47/40; + 2 - 450 TT

Naval service: No significant events.

 

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