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REGIA MARINA (ITALY)

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

decoy vessels of WWI

more than 1000 BRT:

Name Launched // Comm. Builder Displacement, t Dimensions, m Speed, kts Machinery, Fuel, Power, t Armament Fate
Sassari // 8.1916   1489 83.5x11.0 11 1VTE, 1760   returned 4.1919

100 - 1000 t

Folgore (1914, 104, 1.1917-7/1919); Gallinara (1908, 106, 7.1915-22.11.1915); Gianicolo (1908, 262, 5.1915-1/1920); Malamocco (, 300, 1916-1920); Pantelleria (, 204, 7.1915-14.8.1916); Saetta (1915, 104, 1.1917-7/1919); Ustica (, 198, 7.1915-9/1919)

Project history: Former merchant vessels converted to decoy vessels for submarines.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

 

 

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