Palestro-class destroyer

Class overview
Builders: Cantiere navale fratelli Orlando, Livorno
Operators:
Built: 1917-1923
In commission: 1921-1944
Planned: 8
Completed: 4
Lost: 4
General characteristics [1]
Displacement:
  • 875 long tons (889 t) standard
  • 1,076 long tons (1,093 t) full
Length:
  • 81.9 m (268 ft 8 in) o/a
  • 80 m (262 ft 6 in) w/l
Beam: 8 m (26 ft 3 in)
Draught: 2.7 m (8 ft 10 in)
Propulsion:
  • 4 × Thornycroft boilers
  • 2 × Zoelly steam turbines
  • 18,000 hp (13,423 kW)
  • 2 shafts
Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Range: 1,970 nmi (3,650 km; 2,270 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement: 118
Armament:
  • 4 × Schneider-Armstrong 1917 model 102/45 mm main guns
  • 2 × Ansaldo 76/40 mm guns
  • 2 × 6.5/80 mm guns
  • 4 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes
  • From 10 to 38 mines

The Palestro-class torpedo boats were destroyers of the Italian Regia Marina that saw service from the mid-1920s to World War II.

The ships were designed in 1915 and based on the Audace-class destroyer. Eight ships were ordered, but because of wartime shortages of materials only four were eventually completed. These four ships were laid down in 1917 at the Orlando shipyard in Livorno, but were not finally completed until 1921-1923. In 1938 they were re-rated as torpedo boats.[1]

The design was subsequently enlarged into the Sella-class destroyers, a design that was developed into a series of medium-sized Italian destroyer classes.[2]

Ships

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Gogin, Ivan (2011). "Palestro destroyers (1921-1923)". navypedia.org. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  2. Whitley, M J (2000). Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. London: Arms and Armour Press. pp. 160–161. ISBN 1-85409-521-8.
  3. 1 2 Gogin, Ivan (2011). "TA17 torpedo boats (1943-1944)". navypedia.org. Retrieved 12 October 2012.


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