Quintino Sella 1940
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Francesco Crispi | CP, CR | Pattison, Napoli | 10.1922 | 25.4.1925 | 4.1927 | captured by Germany 9.9.1943 (TA15) | |
| Quintino Sella | SE | Pattison, Napoli | 1.1923 | 12.9.1925 | 3.1926 | sunk 11.9.1943 | |
| Bettino Ricasoli | RC | Pattison, Napoli | 1923 | 29.1.1926 | 10.1926 | to Sweden 3.1940 (Puke) | |
| Giovanni Nicotera | NC | Pattison, Napoli | 1923 | 24.6.1926 | 2.1927 | to Sweden 3.1940 (Psilander) |
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Displacement standard, t |
1140 |
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Displacement full, t |
1457 |
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Length, m |
82.5 pp 84.9 oa |
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Breadth, m |
8.60 |
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Draught, m |
2.70 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
Francesco Crispi: 2 sets Beluzzo geared steam turbines, 3 Thornycroft boilers others: 2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Thornycroft boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
36000 |
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Max speed, kts |
35 |
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Fuel, t |
oil 250 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 1800(14) |
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Armament |
1 x 2 - 120/45 Schneider-Canet-Armstrong 1918-19, 1 x 1 - 120/45 Schneider-Canet-Armstrong 1918, 2 x 1 - 40/39 Vickers-Terni 1917, 2 x 1 - 13.2/76, 2 x 2 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 32 mines |
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Complement |
120 - 152 |
Project history: Pattison design. As the starting point at designing Curtatone class destroyers served. The displacement increase approximately on 100t has allowed to transfer to 120mm guns and 533mm TTs and to place more than in one and a half time more powerful machinery. Design standard displacement of new destroyers was 955t, but actual one has exceeded 1100t, building overload reached about 17%. Though on trials all 4 ships reached 38kts, speed in real conditions at full load did not exceed 33kts.
Modernizations: 1929, all: - 1 x 1 - 120/45; + 1 x 2 - 120/45 OTO 1926
1938, all: - 2 x 1 - 13.2/76; + 2 x 2 - 13.2/76
1941 - 1942, both remained: - 2 x 1 - 40/39; + 4 x 1 - 20/70 Scotti-Isotta Fraschini 1939, 2 DCT
Naval service: Quintino Sella was sunk 11.9.1943 by German MTBs S54 and S61 S off Venice.
Francesco Crispi in September, 1943 was captured by German troops, renamed TA15 and sunk 8.3.1944 by British aircraft N off Crete. She was raised and towed off to Piraeus but 12.10.1944 scuttled at the same place.
Francesco Crispi
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