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The greatest success of Italian MAS was the sinking of the Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István off Pula on 10 June 1918 by a boat commanded by Luigi Rizzo. MAS boats later engaged in the Second Battle of Durazzo in October 1918. The main Austrian fleet remained securely at anchor in the harbour at Pola (now Pula in Croatia), protected ...
The Italian MAS also acted as a flank force in support of army operations off Sevastopol and Novorossiysk and, despite their obvious vulnerability, they captured more than a thousand Soviet troops during the course of their campaigns. [5] The Flottiglia lost two torpedo boats and one midget submarine, all of them victims of bombing raids while ...
The Decima Flottiglia MAS (Decima Flottiglia Motoscafi Armati Siluranti, also known as La Decima or Xª MAS) (Italian for "10th Torpedo-Armed Motorboat Flotilla") was an Italian flotilla, with marines and commando frogman unit, of the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy). The acronym MAS also refers to various light torpedo boats used by the Regia ...
In the aftermath of the Italian fleet's defeat at the Battle of Lissa in 1866, the Italian parliament drastically reduced naval budgets. [1] By the 1870s, the small budgets precluded the acquisition of a large battle fleet centered on new ironclads like the Duilio class then under construction, and so Admiral Simone Antonio Saint-Bon, then the Italian Minister of the Navy, ordered a small ...
MOC 1201 launched 17 November 1941 as HMS LCT(2)-167 [364] > LCT 167 > 1945 as NSC(L)34 > delivered to Italian Navy 4 May 1945 as MZ-34 > 1 May 1950 as MOC 1201 for torpedo support MOC 1206 Launched 4 October 1941 as HMS LCT(2)-140 [ 365 ] > LCT 140 > 1945 as NSC(L)77 > August 1946 as Parma - Lloyd Mediterraneo, Roma > Sold 1 December 1950 to ...
Audace - ordered as Kawakaze; sold to Italy in 1916; reclassified as torpedo boat on 1 October 1929; La Masa class - reclassified as torpedo boats on 1 October 1929 Giuseppe La Masa; Angelo Bassini; Agostino Bertani- renamed Enrico Cosenz in 1921; Benedetto Cairoli; Giacinto Carini; Nicola Fabrizi; Giuseppe La Farina; Giacomo Medici
XII MAS comprised four MAS boats and their crews and support staff, a total of 99 men, under the command of Capitano di Corvetta Giuseppe Bianchini. In May 1942 the force began the journey to the lake, loading the boats onto transports for the journey overland via the Brenner Pass and Innsbruck to Stettin , and by ship to Helsinki .
The Motosilurante CRDA 60 t (also known as MS boat) was a type of motor torpedo boat built for the Regia Marina during World War II.It was designed on the pattern of German S-boats — some early examples of which were captured by the Italians from Yugoslav Navy — to complement the faster but less seaworthy MAS boats.