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Camouflaged World War II MAS in the Mediterranean Sea. Motoscafo armato silurante (torpedo-armed motorboat), alternatively Motoscafo antisommergibili (anti-submarine motorboat) and commonly abbreviated as MAS, was a class of fast torpedo-armed vessels used by the Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy) during World War I and World War II.
On the night of 13 March 1943 MAS 568 and 570 damaged, two Soviet patrol boats with machine gun fire and, on the night of 19 April, MAS 567, 568, 569 and 572 shot up two armoured gunboats. On 21 April MAS 567 and 569 damaged two Soviet MTBs during a brief mélee. [5] The Black Sea Italian midget submarines under Romanian control, late 1943
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 ...
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
On 10 March 1918, Ippolito Nievo, with the motor torpedo boat MAS 99 in tow, and Antonio Mosto, towing MAS 100, set out for a raid on Portorož (known to the Italians as Portorose) on the coast of Austria-Hungary, with Pilade Bronzetti, the scout cruisers Alessandro Poerio, Augusto Riboty, Carlo Mirabello, and Cesare Rossarol, the destroyer ...
Giacinto Carini was an Italian La Masa-class destroyer. Commissioned into service in the Italian Regia Marina ("Royal Navy") in 1917, she served in World War I, participating in the Adriatic campaign. During the interwar period, she took part in operations during the Corfu incident in 1923 and was reclassified as a torpedo boat in 1929.
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.