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"Baglietto velocissimo" type motor torpedo boat (MAS424) (1937)


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

MAS424

Baglietto, Varazze: MAS424

12/1937: MAS424

MAS424 (9.9.1943, later German S624)

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Technical data


Displacement standard, t

19

Displacement full, t21
Length, m16.5
Breadth, m4.25
Draught, m1.20
No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Isotta Fraschini petrol engines

Power, h. p.

2000

Max speed, kts

45

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)350(39)
Armament

1 x 1 - 6.5/115, 2 - 450 TT, 6 DC

Electronic equipmentpresumably hydrophone
Complement

8



Standard scale images


<i>MAS424 </i>1937
MAS424 1937


Project history

Type «Baglietto experimental class 500», development of "Baglietto 1931" type. The jumboizing has allowed to raise endurance in three times, and speed was moderated slightly. On this boat the construction and technichs were tested, later used on boats of "500" series. MTB received number 424 from a boat of "SVAN 13-ton fast" type boat lost in 1937.

Modernizations

1940: - 1 x 1 - 6.5/115; + 1 x 1 - 13.2/76.

Naval service

No significant events.