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    worst defeat suffered by Decima MAS in the war. Many of the two MAS-boat (Motoscafo armato silurante, torpedo-armed motorboat) crews and surviving Decima...
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    Motoscafo armato silurante (torpedo-armed motorboat), alternatively Motoscafo antisommergibili (anti-submarine motorboat) and commonly abbreviated as...
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    MTM used in the successful Raid on Souda Bay (25/26 March 1941). The Motoscafo trasporto lento (MTL, slow transport motorboat) was a wooden-hulled boat...
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    MTM used in the successful Raid on Souda Bay (25/26 March 1941). The Motoscafo trasporto lento (MTL, slow transport motorboat) was a wooden-hulled boat...
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    The explosive motorboat MT (Motoscafo da Turismo) also known as barchino (Italian for "little boat"), was a series of small explosive motor boats developed...
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    grouped with them by some. Italian MTBs of this period were known as Motoscafo Armato Silurante ("MAS boats", torpedo-armed motorboats). French MTBs...
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    The MTSM motor torpedo boat ( Motoscafo da Turismo Silurante Modificato) was a series of small motor torpedo boats developed by the Italian Royal Navy...
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  • Incursori (COMSUBIN) for training and operational duties and are named MAS Motoscafo Appoggio Subacquei (DSV Diving Support Vessel). Alcide Pederetti is assigned...
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    mostly against moored targets. Each boat, called by the Italians MTM (Motoscafo da Turismo Modificato), carried 300 kilograms (660 lb) of explosive charge...
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    departed Leros island in the Aegean at night, each carrying 3 small (2-ton) Motoscafo da Turismo motor assault boats of the Decima MAS. Each MT (nicknamed barchini...
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    old local defence torpedo boats and a squadron of five first world war Motoscafo Armato Silurante (MAS, motor torpedo boats). The Flotilla had eight modern...
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    Italian Motoscafo Armato Silurante (MAS) boat...
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  • Gruppo Duomo 7 April 2009 3 L'Incontro 14 April 2009 4 La Talpa è Alfiere? 21 April 2009 5 Il Motoscafo 28 April 2009 6 Ivan Di Meo è la Talpa 5 May 2009...
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  • Retrieved October 5, 2021. "Set cinematografico, Indiana Jones arriva in motoscafo" [Movie set, Indiana Jones arrives by motorboat]. Ragusa News (in Italian)...
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    German request, the Regia Marina deployed four 24-ton torpedo motorboats (Motoscafo Armato Silurante, MAS), six CB-class midget submarines, five torpedo motorboats...
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    composed of two frogmen, and motorboats packed with explosives, called MTM (Motoscafo da Turismo Modificato). Following the attacks on the two British battleships...
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    Force H, was attacked by Italian submarines, aircraft and MAS boats (Motoscafo armato silurante, motor torpedo boats). Port Chalmers carried 250 members...
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    deliver it at Tripoli. Air cover, air reconnaissance and defensive MAS (Motoscafo armato silurante [torpedo-armed motorboat]) ambushes were planned to safeguard...
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    destroyers in two squadrons, a squadron of five Motor Torpedo Boats (MAS, Motoscafo Armato Silurante) and eight submarines in two squadrons. The main base...
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  • Italian Navy as MAS 1 D and MAS 2 D respectively, with MAS standing for Motoscafo Armato Silurante ('Torpedo Armed Motorboat') and the prefix D denoting...
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    frequently in Cappa’s artwork. One early abstract painting, Velocità di Motoscafo, (Velocity of a Motorboat), (1923–24), contains many of the elements that...
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  • chose instead to conduct a "little war" using fast torpedo motorboats, Motoscafo armato silurante or MAS. A successful attack by MAS torpedo boats on the...
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    after 7 May, the German KT 22, some Axis torpedo boats and MAS boats (Motoscafo armato silurante) were the only vessels to run the blockade. By the Axis...
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  • 2004-05-01. Retrieved 2015-06-18. Chaplin, Julia (2007-06-10). "Follow That Motoscafo". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 4, 2013. Retrieved...
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    Office of Submarine Secret Weapons, he also designed and updated the Motoscafo Armato Silurante (MAS), motorboats of between 20 and 30 tons displacement...
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  • Wikiquote has quotations related to Angelo Moreschi. Additional sources "Etiopia, il vicario arriva in motoscafo". La Stampa (in Italian). 16 July 2012....
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    by a single torpedo. Oribi took the damaged freighter in tow. Italian Motoscafo armato silurante (MAS torpedo boats) deployed through the Strait of Messina...
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    Zuai, the auxiliary cruiser Ramb III, and four MAS motor torpedo boats (Motoscafo armato silurante, torpedo-armed motorboat). After diverting from the Mediterranean...
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    Italian Navy), receiving designations MAS 3–8 D, with "MAS" standing for Motoscafo Armato Silurante (Torpedo Armed Motorboat) and the prefix D denoting they...
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  • Type Designation Built Lost Designed purpose MAS-boat Motoscafo Silurante 36...
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