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"Baglietto" type motor torpedo boats (MAS438) (1934 - 1935)


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

MAS438 - 441 (ME38 - 41), 1940- AS25 - 28, 1946- ME38 - 41

Baglietto, Varazze: MAS438-441

1934: MAS438, 439

1935: MAS440, 441

AS26 (5.8.1946)

Soviet Union, 7.1949: AS27 (ТК-979 [TK-979])

6 - 7.1950: AS25, 28



Technical data


Displacement standard, t

40.5

Displacement full, t 
Length, m22.5
Breadth, m4.30
Draught, m1.40
No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Isotta Fraschini petrol engines

Power, h. p.

2000

Max speed, kts

32

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)215(16)
Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 Ansaldo 1917, 2 x 1 - 6.5/115, DC

Electronic equipmenthydrophone
Complement

19



Project history

Specialised anti-submarine boats, did not have torpedoes. On other data they had 460hp engines and made 16kts

Modernizations

late 1930s, all: - 1 x 1 - 76/40; + 1 x 1 - 13.2/76, 1 x 1 - 8.80

Naval service

No significant events.