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"ELCO 44ton" type ("C" group 1st series) motor ASW boats (MAS63) (1917 - 1918)


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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, t40.6
Displacement full, t43.8
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 equipmentmost: hydrophone
Complement

15



Standard scale images


nearly sister-boat <i>MAS274 </i>1918
nearly sister-boat MAS274 1918


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<i>MAS68</i>  
MAS68  


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.