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AGOSTINO BARBARIGO steel dispatch vessels (1879 - 1880)

Agostino Barbarigo 1885

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Agostino Barbarigo     R. Arsenale di Venezia 8/1876 23.1.1879 7/1879 TS 1912, depot ship 1.1913
Marcantonio Colonna     R. Arsenale di Venezia 1/1877 6.8.1879 5/1880 discarded 1.1913

 

Displacement normal, t

Agostino Barbarigo: 614

Marcantonio Colonna: 646

Displacement full, t

Agostino Barbarigo: 805

Marcantonio Colonna: 770

Length, m

66.0 pp 68.1 oa

Breadth, m

7.35

Draught, m

Agostino Barbarigo: 3.43

Marcantonio Colonna: 3.34

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 4 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

Agostino Barbarigo: 1760

Marcantonio Colonna: 1704

Max speed, kts

15

Fuel, t

coal 200

Endurance, nm(kts)

2500(8)

Armament

5 x 1 - 75/21 Uchatius 29cwt BLR No1, 1 - 350 TT (beam)

Complement

104

Project history: Gaff schooner rigged vessels designed by Eng Insp Benedetto Brin.

Modernizations: 1890, both: new armament consisted of 5 x 1 - 57/43 N, 2 x 1 - 25/41 N

1898, both: reboilered

Naval service: In 1912 Barbarigo became a gunnery TS; from 1913 she served as a depot ship at Genoa until sold for scrapping in 1916.

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