Bocca di serchio farmhouse (X° MAS WWII)

In 1936, two officers, Teseo Tesei and Elios Toschi, began to put his hand on a project that their intent was to help bridge the disparity of resources between the Navy and the most powerful naval force at the time, the Royal Navy, at that period strongly present in the Mediterranean Sea

1 ª Flotilla MAS commanded by Captain Paul Aloisi, in charge of organizing the assault force of the Navy, which began at the end of April 1939 in a family's Salvati estate located near the mouth of the river Serchio.

In 1936, the first samples of small boats were built, designed by Aimone di Savoia-Aosta, commander of General MAS, from which depended on both the 1st Flotilla MAS that the torpedo boats.