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MAS68  

Ships

Names	Builders	Completed	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
MAS63 - 87 MAS88, 2.1921- MAS89 MAS89; MAS90	Elco, Bayonne, USA: MAS63-90	4 - 12.1917: MAS63 - 76, 79 - 87, 89(ii) 6/1918: MAS77, 78, 90	MAS89 (lost before commission 10.1917) MAS66 (19.9.1923), MAS79 (4.7.1918)	none	1920: MAS76, 77, 80 1921: MAS67 - 69 1922: MAS64, 65, 74, 81, 85 1923: MAS72, 87 1925: MAS70, 73, 83, 86, 90 1926: MAS71, 75, 84 1928: MAS63, 78, 89(ii) 1929: MAS82

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 equipment	most: hydrophone
Complement	15

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Project history

One of the most mass-built motor boats of WWI-era. They were designed by ELCO and delivered from USA onboard merchant vessels. (MAS89 in October, 1917 has been washed off by wave from a deck of s/s Maine, and never been commissioned by Regia Marina. The majority have been equipped by hydrophone. Differed by high endurance.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.