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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 ...
Italian torpedo boat Giacinto Carini; Italian destroyer Giacomo Medici; Italian torpedo boat Giacomo Medici; Italian destroyer Giovanni Acerbi; Italian destroyer Giuseppe Cesare Abba; Italian torpedo boat Giuseppe Cesare Abba; Italian destroyer Giuseppe Dezza; Italian torpedo boat Giuseppe Dezza; Italian destroyer Giuseppe La Farina
The Italian plans for an assault motor torpedo boat, the MTS, began in December 1939. The Italian Naval Command goal was a small, high speed two-seat motor torpedo boat based on the Motoscafo da Turismo Modificato (MTM), itself an improved version of the MT motorboat which used an explosive charge as the warhead. In addition to speed ...
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.
The Spica-class was a class of torpedo boats of the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) during World War II. These ships were built as a result of a clause in the Washington Naval Treaty, which stated that ships with a tonnage of less than 600 could be built in unlimited numbers. Thirty-two ships were built between 1934 and 1937, thirty of which ...