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TORPEDO SHIPS

LAMPO destroyers (1900-1902)

Lampo 1905

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Lampo     Schichau, Elbing, Germany 5.1899 7.10.1899 6.1900 discarded 3.1920
Freccia     Schichau, Elbing, Germany 1899 23.11.1899 5.1902 beached 12.10.1911
Dardo     Schichau, Elbing, Germany 8.1899 7.2.1900 3.1901 discarded 3.1920
Strale     Schichau, Elbing, Germany 11.1899 19.5.1900 7.1901 discarded 1.1924
Euro, 9.1924- Strale     Schichau, Elbing, Germany 1.1900 27.8.1900 10.1901 discarded 11.1924
Ostro     Schichau, Elbing, Germany 3.1900 9.2.1901 12.1901 discarded 9.1920

 

Displacement normal, t

315

Displacement full, t

348

Length, m

60.0 pp 62.1 oa

Breadth, m

6.50

Draught, m

2.60

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 4 Thornycroft boilers

Power, h. p.

5230 - 5998

Max speed, kts

30 (trials ]31)

Fuel, t

coal 80

Endurance, nm(kts) 2000(12)

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 A, 5 x 1 - 57/43 N, 2 x 1 - 350 TT

Strale, Ostro: 6 x 1 - 57/43 N, 2 x 1 - 350 TT

Complement

53 - 61

Project history: Design of Schichau: strong, fast ships with one serious lack, bad seaworthiness.

Modernizations: 1915, all survived: + 12 mines

Naval service: Freccia ran aground 12.10.1911 at entrance to Tripoli harbour (Libya). Euro was reclassified to torpedo boat in July 1921 and used as target since 1923.

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