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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This category is for torpedo boats designed, built, or operated by Italy during World War II (1939–1945). Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
The defenders of Massawa managed to resist several attacks but the main British effort began on 6 April. The light cruiser HMS Capetown was torpedoed by the motor torpedo boat MAS 213 off Massawa and had to be towed to Port Sudan by the sloop HMAS Parramatta for repairs. Attacks on land, combined with air and sea bombardments led the defences ...
The XII MAS was evacuated from the base at Sortanlahti, withdrawing to winter quarters in Tallinn. The spring of 1943 saw a change in the war situation; the Regia Marina decided to transfer the XII MAS to the Mediterranean, though the four MAS boats were handed over to the Finnish navy rather than being transported back to Italy.