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Well, Mike, you've left out the Italian ones, they had some notable success in both World Wars.
There were several types of small motor torpedo boats in the Regia Marina:
MAS = Motoscafi Antisommergibili, MS = Motosilurante and VAS = Vedette Antisommergibili; whereas MTSM and MTSMA were very small MTBs.
In the 1941 war the Italians had captured some Yugoslavian E-Boats of Lürssen design and from these developed a similar type (Motosilurante), but with Italian Isotta-Fraschini gasoline engines for 32 kts and different armament.
From these were the slower (18-20 kts) VAS developed, used as submarine chasers or minesweepers.
(Fock, Harald: Schnellboote, Vol. II - Entwicklung und Einsatz im 2. Weltkrieg - Herford : Koehler 1974. ISBN 3-7822-0092-6, pp. 34-60.)
Kind regards -
Papercaptain
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