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MONTE GRAPPA monitors (floating batteries) (1919-1920)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Monte Cengio     R. Cantiere di Castellamare di Stabia 7/1918 10.12.1919 6/1920 auxiliary 11.1924
Monte Grappa     R. Cantiere di Castellamare di Stabia 5.1918 21.9.1918 1.1919 stricken 11.1924
Montello     R. Cantiere di Castellamare di Stabia 5.1918 31.12.1918 5.1919 stricken 11.1924
Monte Novegno     R. Cantiere di Castellamare di Stabia 5/1918 31.5.1919 6/1920 auxiliary 11.1924

 

Displacement normal, t

575 - 633

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

40.0 pp

Breadth, m

10.0

Draught, m

1.78

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Fiat-San Giorgio diesels

Power, h. p.

700

Max speed, kts

7

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 370(7)

Armament

1 x 1 - 381/40 V1914

Complement

 

Project history: Unique series of floating batteries, built under special order, instead of converted from trophy vessels. Officially they were rated as monitors.

Modernizations: None

Naval service: No significant events.

Monte Grappa 1919

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