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"MTSMA" type midget torpedo boats (1943 - 1945)


Ships


Names Builders Commissioned Losses Transfers Discarding

80 units of SMA(B) type

97 units of SMA(C) type: MTSMA500 - 596

Baglietto, Varazze: SMA(B), 80 units

SIAI, Sesto Calende: SMA(C), MTSMA500-596

1943 - 1945: 49 units

137 units were incomplete

losses are unknown

none

unknown



Technical data


Displacement standard, t

SMA(C): 1.9

Displacement full, t

SMA(B): 3.7

SMA(C): 3.3

Length, m

SMA(B): 8.80

SMA(C): 8.21

Breadth, m

2.32

Draught, m

0.70

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Alfa Romeo petrol engines

Power, h. p.

190

Max speed, kts

30

Fuel, t

petrol 500 l

Endurance, nm(kts)115(30)
Armament

1 x 2 - 7.5/90 or 1 x 1 - 15/84, 1 - 450 TT, 2 DC

Complement

2



Standard scale images


<i>MTSMA500</i> 1943
MTSMA500 1943


Project history

Ex-Italian boats. First group was captured on the stocks and latter was ordered by German navy. Wooden hulled.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.