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"ELCO 44ton modified" type ("C" group 1st series) motor ASW boats (MAS303) (1918 - 1919)


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

MAS303 - 309

MAS310, 2.1921- MAS296

MAS311 - 317

R. Cantiere di Castellamare di Stabia: MAS303 - 311

Cosamati, Napoli / R. Cantiere di Castellamare di Stabia: MAS312, 313

Bonifacio, Castellamare di Stabia / R. Cantiere di Castellamare di Stabia: MAS314, 315

Amendola, Napoli / R. Cantiere di Castellamare di Stabia: MAS316, 317

1918: MAS303 - 311, 314, 316

1919: MAS312, 315, 317

MAS313 (completed 1919 without armament, fishing boat 1920)

MAS308 (31.12.1918)

none

1919: MAS317

1921: MAS304

1922: MAS303, 305, 306, 309, 311, 314 - 316

1923: MAS307

1925: MAS296

1929: MAS312



Technical data


Displacement normal, t

42.8

Displacement full, t

44.6

Length, m

24.4 pp

Breadth, m

3.75

Draught, m

1.31

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Standard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

460

Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)900(16)
Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 A1916, (1 - 2) x 1 - 6.5/115, 10 DC

Electronic equipmentmost: hydrophone
Complement

15



Standard scale images


<i>MAS303</i> 1918
MAS303 1918


Project history

One of the most mass-built motor boats of WWI-era. ELCO design, modified by the Subdirection of naval construction af Arsenale di Castellamare di Stabia. The majority have been equipped by hydrophone.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.