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Photo # NH 104060:  Motor boat Elco 10 in 1917.  She later had U.S. Navy service before being transferred to the Italian Navy


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Elco 10 (American Motor Boat, 1917).
Served in the U.S. Navy as Elco 10 (with no ID # assigned) in 1917

Elco 10, an 80-foot motor boat, was built in 1917 by the Elco Company of Bayonne, New Jersey, for the Italian Government as an anti-submarine motor launch ("motoscafi antisommergibili", or "MAS",). In April 1917, soon after the United States entered World War I, she was taken over by the U.S. Navy and placed in service as Elco 10 (with no SP or ID number assigned). Delivered to the Italians in December of that year, she entered Italian Navy service in June 1918 as either MAS-77 or MAS-78.

This page features the only view we have concerning the motor boat Elco 10, which served in the U.S. Navy as Elco 10 in 1917.


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Photo #: NH 104060

Elco 10
(American Motor Boat, 1917)

Photographed in 1917, probably when first completed.
Built for the Italian Government as an anti-submarine motor launch ("motoscafi antisommergibili", or "MAS") by the Elco Company of Bayonne, New Jersey, this boat was taken over by the U.S. Navy (with no SP number assigned) in April 1917 but was delivered to the Italians in December of that year. She entered Italian Navy service on 17 June 1918 as either MAS-77 or MAS-78.
She is flying a U.S. Navy Jack and Ensign in this photograph, and appears to have U.S. Navy and Italian Navy personnel on deck.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 41KB; 740 x 470 pixels

 


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