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TORPEDO SHIPS

AGORDAT protected torpedo cruisers (1900)

Coatit 1900

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Agordat     R. Cantiere di Castellamare di Stabia 18.2.1897 11.10.1899 26.9.1900 minelayer 1919, discarded 1.1923
Coatit     R. Cantiere di Castellamare di Stabia 8.4.1897 15.11.1899 1.10.1900 discarded 6.1920

 

Displacement normal, t

Agordat: 1340

Coatit: 1292

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

87.6 pp 91.6 oa

Breadth, m

9.32

Draught, m

Agordat: 3.64

Coatit: 3.54

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 8 Blechynden boilers

Power, h. p.

Agordat: 7500

Coatit: 8000

Max speed, kts

Agordat: 22 (trials 23)

Coatit: 22.5 (trials 23)

Fuel, t

coal 160

Endurance, nm(kts) 3000(10)

Armour, mm

steel; deck: 20

Armament

12 x 1 - 76/40 A, 2 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

153 - 185

Project history: Originally these ships were rated as protected cruisers, 4.6.1914 re-rated as scouts (esploratori). To the beginning of WWI they become outdated and could make no more than 20kts. Soon after Armistice Coatit became minelayer, and Agordat was re-rated as gunboat.

Ship protection: Only protective 20mm deck.

Modernizations: 1919, Coatit: - 8 x 1 - 76/40, 2 x 1 - 450 TT; + 2 x 1 - 120/40 A1891, mines

1921, Agordat: - 4 x 1 - 76/40, 2 x 1 - 450 TT; + 2 x 1 - 120/40 A1891

Naval service: No significant events.

 

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