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Italian torpedo boats ww1. This was a short parachute-dropped torpedo that ran in circles spirals and curves. During WWI German U-Boats developed numerous variants of torpedo attacks which were intended to neutralize these constraints. The development of large battleships and cruisers also brought about new and creative ways to sink these floating fortresses.
Motoscafo Armato Silurante Commonly abbreviated as MAS were classes of Italian torpedo boats developed in 1915 and used in World war 1 and World War 2. Generally a U-Boat could only perform an attack if the angle on the bow of the target was less than. Renamed Para in 1894.
Most European navies had some type of motor torpedo boat MTB by the outbreak of war on July 29 1914 but it was the Italian navy with the Adriatic Sea as a proving ground that did the most to advance the design and tactics of this formidable weapon system. Built in 1891 as Michele Lazzarone. About MAS 15 - Italian World War I Motor Torpedo Boat Lightly armed and fast the Italian-built MAS 15 was one of the first historical examples of a torpedo boat in action.
The Italian boats were smaller than those built by Britain America and Germany having been designed for use in the calmer waters of the. Ad Hall of Fame boat dealer with a full line of Cobalt Boats offering salesservice storage. At 2233 while the torpedo boat was 5 miles north-north east of Cape Spada a lookout signaled an enemy destroyer at about 1200 to 1500 meters to the right.
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Indeed its a subject of the Empire which in the late 1860s and early 1870s developed for the first time a new kind of naval mine self-propelled later called torpedo due to. CICLONE torpedo boats destroyer escorts 1942 - 1943 38. Renamed Remo in 1893.