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MAS571

Ships

Names	Builders	Completed	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
MAS555 - 561 MAS562, 1946- ME B8, 1947- MAS8 MAS563 - 576	Picchiotti, Limite sull`Arno: MAS555 - 557, 571 - 573 Celli, Venezia: MAS558 - 560, 574 - 576 Baglietto, Varazze: MAS561 - 570	2 - 10.1941: MAS555 - 576	MAS555 (12.11.1943), MAS556 (9.9.1943 RSI, sunk 24.4.1945), MAS557 (9.9.1943 German S511), MAS558 (9.9.1943 German S629), MAS559 (13.11.1943), MAS560 (31.3.1943), MAS561 (9.9.1943 German S621), MAS563 (31.3.1943), MAS564 (11.6.1943), MAS571 (9.9.1942), MAS572 (12.5.1943), MAS573 (9.9.1942), MAS576 (6.4.1943)	Germany 5.1943: MAS566 - 570, 574, 575 (S501 - 507)	1945: MAS565 7/1950: MAS8

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	27.8
Displacement full, t	28
Length, m	18.7
Breadth, m	4.70
Draught, m	1.50
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Isotta Fraschini petrol engines / 2 Alfa Romeo or Cararo cruising petrol engines
Power, h. p.	2000 or 2300 / 140 or 100
Max speed, kts	43 / 6
Fuel, t	petrol 1.25
Endurance, nm(kts)	350(42)
Armament	1 x 1 - 13.2/76 or 1 x 1 - 20/65 Breda 1940, 2 - 450 TT, 6 - 10 DC
Electronic equipment	presumably hydrophone
Complement	13

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Project history

Type "Baglietto class 500, 4th series": identical to boats of 3rd series, but again wooden-hulled (under some data MAS555-565 had steel or composite hulls).

Modernizations

1946, ME B8: - 2 - 450 TT, 6 DC

1947, MAS8: + 2 - 450 TT, 6 DC

Naval service

MAS562 was captured by Germans 9.9.1943, transferred to RSI, later 29.4.1944 captured by Americans and transferred to Italians.