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MAS552 motor torpedo boats (1941)


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MAS539 1941  

Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

MAS552 - 554

CRDA, Monfalcone: MAS552 - 554

5 - 6.1941: MAS552-554

MAS552 (30.4.1943), MAS553 (9.9.1943, later German S512), MAS554 (12.9.1943 German S623)

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Technical data


Displacement standard, t

23

Displacement full, t

27.8

Length, m

18.7

Breadth, m

4.70

Draught, m

1.40

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Isotta Fraschini petrol engines / 2 Alfa Romeo or Cararo cruising petrol engines

Power, h. p.

2000 / 140 or 100

Max speed, kts

43 / 6

Fuel, t

petrol 1.25

Endurance, nm(kts)395(43)
Armament

1 x 1 - 13.2/76, 2 - 450 TT, 10 DC

Electronic equipmentpresumably hydrophone
Complement

13



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<i>MAS552</i> 1941
MAS552 1941


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<i>MAS539</i> 1941  
MAS539 1941  


Project history

Type "Baglietto class 500, 3rd series": steel-hulled variant of 2nd series. They had 2 70hp petrol engines for cruising.

Modernizations

1941 - 1942, some: - 1 x 1 - 13.2/76; + 1 x 1 - 20/65 Breda 1940.

Naval service

No significant events.