The speedboat MTL (MTL = Motoscafo Turismo Lento) was produced in small series speed boat of the Italian Navy , which was developed in the spring of 1941 to the transport of two manned torpedoes of the type SLC allow. The MTL was not based on the structure of the MTSM and had to be modified in such a way that both torpedoes and a crew of four could be taken aft. The boat was designed in such a way that it could be brought by tugs or speedboats into a target area that was beyond its range of 60 nmlay. Due to the unusual combination of an internal combustion engine with a secondary electric motor, the following specifications resulted:
Combustion engine: top speed 5 knots with a range of 60 nm
Electric motor: maximum speed 4 kn with a range of 40 nm.
There is no reliable information about the number of boats produced by the two companies Baglietto in Varazze (hulls) and CABI in Milan (machine parts) . So far, only two of these boats have become known. One of them was lost in the Operazione Malta Due , the attack on the English base La Valletta on Malta on July 25, 1941, and one served after the armistice of Cassibile in the Italian Social Republic (RSI) where it was taken over into their navy. There the boat came under German control and was used in the small combat units of the Navy . Nothing is known about his whereabouts.
Individual evidence
↑ Harald Fock: Naval small weapons. Manned torpedoes, small submarines, small speedboats, explosives yesterday - today - tomorrow. Nikol, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-930656-34-5 , pp. 116-117.
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