The Italian Navy line of fast attack torpedo boats MAS were perhaps the most well designed and thoroughly tested small boats of any navy.

Italian mas boats ww2. Together with 2 other MASs Assault Surface Vehicles and a few. Well help you find or build the Cobalt Boat of your dreams call us today to get started. On the 9th of September 1942 after an official visit by Admiral Reader to the Italian base in Yalta this was violently attacked by a group of Soviet bombers which hit and sank MAS 571 and 573 a barge and also seriously damaged MAS 567 569 and 572.

Indeed the standard MAS of 1941 was 28 tons powered by two Isotta-Fraschini engines for a total of 2300 hp and capable of 43 knots while the latter MTS were given a 90 hp Alfa-Romeo engine and were 17 tons. Between the wars the Italian Navy continued to display interest in smallboat warfare and in 1936 formed the unit which was to become famous as the Decima Flottiglia MAS 10th Light Flotilla specifically for operations of this type. On a cold December night of 1944 Helmsman Aurelio Cosatto and his crew set out on a mission.

Their draft was approximately 3ft1m fully loaded. Top speed was approximately 26 knots. The Italian MAS completed 6 more missions sinking a small steamship of about 3000 tons.

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An Italian MAS used in 1942 on Ladoga Lake transported in Sweden after the end of the War. Torpedo armed motorboat commonly abbreviated as MAS was a class of fast torpedo armed vessel used by the Regia Marina the Royal Navy of Italy during World War I and World War IIThe MAS boats were very. The two old Austro-Hungarian battleships Wien and Budapest had been bombarding Italian shore positions when MAS9 and MAS13 under the command of Commander Luigi Rizzo crept into the Trieste roadstead where the two capital ships were anchored.

This weapon had given to the Italian Navy the most glamorous successes such as the sinking of the battleships SZENT ISTVAN and WIEN respectively by MAS 15 and 9. The MAS boats scored the first major success for torpedo boats on the night of December 9 1917. Packed with detail a neat set of well-printed decals and a biggish metal-etch fret for super-detail parts.