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REGIA MARINA (ITALY)

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FR22 destroyers

Léopard 1942

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
FR22 (ex-Panthère)     Arsenal de Lorient, France 12.1922 27.10.1924 11.1926 // --- scuttled incomplete 8.9.1943
FR23 (ex-Tigre)     A C de Bretagne, Nantes, France 9.1923 2.8.1924 12.1925 // --- commissioned as personnel transport, returned to France 10.1943 (Tigre)

   

Displacement standard, t

2126

Displacement full, t

2950 - 3050

Length, m

119.7 pp 126.8 oa

Breadth, m

11.3

Draught, m

4.10

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets Rateau-Bretagne geared steam turbines, 5 Du Temple boilers

Power, h. p.

50000

Max speed, kts

35.5

Fuel, t

oil 530

Endurance, nm(kts) 2900(16)

Armament

4 x 1 - 130/40 M1919, 4 x 2 - 13.2/76, 2 x 3 - 550 TT, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (46)

Complement 195

Project history: Ex-French destroyers Panthère and Tigre were scuttled 27.11.1942 but salvaged by Italians and renamed FR22 and FR23, former was never repaired, latter was commissioned by Italian navy as auxiliary personnel transport and returned to France after Italy surrendered.

FR23 1943

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