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GIS0021 motor torpedo boats (1942 - 1944 / 1947 - 1950)


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MS453 1975

Ships


Names Builders Commissioned Losses Transfers Discarding

GIS0021 (ex-PT88), 4.1951- GIS842, 11.1952- MS842, 1.1954- P442 MS442, 3.1966- Brigadiere Gianotti, 1969- P442 MS442

GIS0022 (ex-PT90), 4.1951- GIS843, 11.1952- MS843, 1.1954- P443 MS443

GIS0023 (ex-PT92), 4.1951- GIS841, 11.1952- MS841, 1.1954- P441 MS441

GIS0024 (ex-PT94), 4.1951- GIS844, 11.1952- MS844, 1.1954- P444 MS444

GIS0025 (ex-PT206), 4.1951- GIS851, 11.1952- MS851, 1.1954- P451 MS451, 3.1966- Tenente Lombardo, 1969- P451 MS451

GIS0026 (ex-PT210), 4.1951- GIS852, 11.1952- MS852, 1.1954- P452 MS452, 3.1966- Finanziere Feliciani, 1974- P452 MS452

GIS0027 (ex-PT215), 4.1951- GIS853, 11.1952- MS853, 1.1954- P453 MS453

Higgins, New Orleans, USA: GIS0021-0027

7-12/1942 // 4.1948: GIS0021-0023

7-12/1942 // 1950: GIS0024

1-12/1943 // 2.1947: GIS0025-0027

none

none

1964: MS444

1969: MS451

1972: MS442

1974: MS452

1980: MS453

1985: MS441, 443



Technical data


Displacement standard, t

35

Displacement full, t

48

Length, m

23.9 - 24.0

Breadth, m

6.12

Draught, m

1.60

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 petrol engines

Power, h. p.

4050 - 4500

Max speed, kts

41

Fuel, t

petrol 10800 l

Endurance, nm(kts)

500 (20)

Armament

1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, (2 - 3) x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 2 - 450 TT

Electronic equipmentSO or SCR-517A radar
Complement

17



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MS453 1975
MS453 1975


Project history

USN 78ft Higgins type.

Modernizations

early 1960s, all: engines were replaced by ASM185 petrol engines (4500hp, 34kts, endurance was 1000(20)nm); - SCR-517A radar; + SPS-21 radar, complement was 11

1962-1963, MS441, 443, 453 as frogmen support boats: were armed with 3 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10 only