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"ELCO 44ton" type ("C" group 4th series) motor ASW boats (MAS377) (1918 - 1919)


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

MAS377 - 394

MAS395, 8.1926- Roma, 6.1927- MAS395

MAS396

ELCO, Bayonne, USA: MAS377-396

1918: MAS377 - 390

1919: MAS391 - 396

none

none

1919: MAS378, 394

1920: MAS379, 380

1921: MAS382

1922: MAS388, 393

1923: MAS384

1925: MAS383

1927: MAS377, 386

1928: MAS381, 385, 392

1929: MAS387, 389 - 391, 395, 396



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 - 76/40 A1916, 1 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.