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SPANISH NAVY (SPAIN)

COASTAL FORCES

NÁPOLES motor torpedo boat (1918/1937)

Nápoles 1937

Names

Nápoles (ex-MAS100), 4.1939- LT17

Builders

Orlando, Leghorn, Italy: Nápoles

Completed

1918 // 3.1937: Nápoles

Losses

None

Transfers

None

Discarding

4/1944: LT17

  

Displacement normal, t

11

Displacement full, t

13.4

Length, m

16.2

Breadth, m

2.83

Draught, m

1.38

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Isotta-Fraschini petrol engines / 2 Rognini electric motors

Power, h. p.

500 / 10

Max speed, kts

29.5 / 4

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts) 170(24)

Armament

(2 - 3) x 1 - 6.5/80, 2 - 450 TT, 4 DC

Complement

8

Project history: So-called "12-ton" boat projected by A. Bisio (SVAN). Typical Italian WWI-era MTB, by the moment of transfer to Spaniards she was in depressing technical condition and practically had no battle value, was used basically as patrol launch.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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