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SICILIA motor torpedo boat (1918/1937)


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

Sicilia (ex-MAS223), 4.1939- LT18

Orlando, Leghorn, Italy: Sicilia

1918 // 3.1937: Sicilia

none

none

3/1941: LT18



Technical data


Displacement normal, t12
Displacement full, t

12.9

Length, m

16.4

Breadth, m

2.89

Draught, m

1.41

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Isotta Fraschini petrol engines

Power, h. p.

500

Max speed, kts

26

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)200(26)
Armament

(2 - 3) x 1 - 6.5/80, 2 - 450 TT, 4 DC

Complement

8



Standard scale images


<i>Sicilia</i> 1937
Sicilia 1937


Project history

So-called "12-ton" boats projected by A. Bisio (SVAN). Typical Italian WWI-era MTBs, by the moment of transfer to Spaniards she was in depressing technical condition and practically had no battle value, was used basically as patrol launch.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.