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VEDETTA iron sloop (1869)

Vedetta 1880

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Vedetta     La Foce, Genova 1862 24.10.1866 4/1869 depot ship 1901

 

Displacement normal, t

814

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

56.3

Breadth, m

8.24

Draught, m

3.56

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 HSE, 2 rectangular boilers

Power, h. p.

670

Max speed, kts

11

Fuel, t

coal 140

Endurance, nm(kts) 1000(9)

Armament

1 x 1 - 75/21 Uchatius 29cwt BL No1

Complement

95

Project history: Barque-rigged, and the first iron warship built in Italian yards.

Modernizations: 1896: - 1 x 1 - 75/21; + 2 x 1 - 37/25 H lungo, 2 x 5 - 37/20 H corto

Naval service: Discarded 30.8.1903, she was transferred to the Garaventa Institute, Genoa.

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