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"ELCO 44ton" type ("C" group 2nd series) motor ASW boats (MAS103) (1918)


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

MAS103 - 108

MAS109, 2.1921- MAS104

MAS110, 111

MAS112, 2.1921- MAS264

MAS113, 114

Elco, Bayonne, USA: MAS103-114

1918: MAS103 - 114

MAS104 (8.5.1918), MAS108 (18.11.1925)

none

1922: MAS106

1924: MAS111, 114

1925: MAS103, 107

1928: MAS104(ii), 264(ii)

1929: MAS105, 110, 113



Technical data


Displacement normal, t

40.6

Displacement full, t

43.8

Length, m

24.4

Breadth, m

3.71

Draught, m

1.20

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Standard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

460

Max speed, kts

15 - 17

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)900(14)
Armament

1 x 1 - 76/30 A1914, (1 - 2) x 1 - 6.5/115, 10 DC

Electronic equipmentmost: hydrophone
Complement

15



Standard scale images


nearly sister-boat <i>MAS274 </i>1918
nearly sister-boat MAS274 1918


Project history

One of the most mass-built motor boats of WWI-era. They were designed by ELCO. They were delivered from USA onboard merchant vessels. The majority have been equipped by hydrophone. Differed by high endurance.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.