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MC490 motor torpedo / gun boat (1955)

Folgore 1965

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
MC490, 9.1965- Folgore P490   CRDA, Monfalcone   21.1.1954 8.1955 stricken 10.1976

 

Displacement standard, t

160

Displacement full, t

190

Length, m

39.4

Breadth, m

5.80

Draught, m

1.70

No of shafts

4

Machinery

4 diesels

Power, h. p.

10000

Max speed, kts

36

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 2 - 533 TT

Electronic equipment radar
Complement

39

Project history: Authorized in 1950. The design was a convertible MGB/MTB and she could carry up to 4-533mm TT.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Folgore 1972

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