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PEGASO (PERSEO group) torpedo boats (1905-1906)

Pegaso 1906

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Perseo     Pattison, Napoli 8.1904 5.12.1905 8.1906 collision 6.2.1917
Pegaso     Pattison, Napoli 8.1904 12.8.1905 9.1905 discarded 3.1923
Procione     Pattison, Napoli 8.1904 16.12.1905 9.1906 discarded 4.1924
Pallade     Pattison, Napoli 8.1904 1.6.1906 9.1906 discarded 3.1923

 

Displacement normal, t

207

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

50.1 pp 50.4 oa

Breadth, m

5.30

Draught, m

1.72

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Thornycroft boilers

Power, h. p.

2900 - 3279

Max speed, kts

25 - 26.6

Fuel, t

coal 40

Endurance, nm(kts) 1370(8)

Armament

2 x 1 - 57/43 N, 1 x 1 - 47/40 H, 3 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

35 - 42

Project history: Built under British project. Successful ships with good seaworthiness for their dimensions.

Modernizations: 1908 - 1911, all: boilers were converted to burn oil.

1915 - 1918, all survived: - 2 x 1 - 57/43, 1 x 1 - 47/40, 1 x 1 - 450 TT; + 2 x 1 - 76/40 A1916, 1 x 1 - 13.2/76

Naval service: Perseo was lost 6.2.1917 as result of collision with sister-ship Astore off Stromboli.

Pegaso 1905

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