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SIRIO torpedo boats (1905-1906)

Sirio 1906

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Sirio     Schichau, Elbing, Germany 12.1904 13.5.1905 9.1905 discarded 3.1923
Sagittario     Schichau, Elbing, Germany 12.1904 31.5.1905 11.1905 discarded 1.1923
Spica     Schichau, Elbing, Germany 1.1905 15.7.1905 11.1905 discarded 3.1923
Scorpione     Schichau, Elbing, Germany 1.1905 14.9.1905 12.1905 collision 15.5.1917
Saffo     Schichau, Elbing, Germany 1905 30.11.1905 3.1906 wrecked 2.4.1920

 

Displacement normal, t

207

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

50.0 pp 51.1 oa

Breadth, m

6.00

Draught, m

1.60

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Schulz-Thornycroft boilers

Power, h. p.

3000 - 3100

Max speed, kts

25.5

Fuel, t

coal 62

Endurance, nm(kts) 1920(8)

Armament

3 x 1 - 47/40 H, 3 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

38

Project history: Successful ships, rated as high seas torpedo boats.

Modernizations: 1917 - 1919, all survived: - 3 x 1 - 47/40; + 2 x 1 - 76/30 A1914

Naval service: Scorpione was lost 15.5.1917 as result of collision with French gunboat Surveillante off Pantelleria. Saffo 2.4.1920 ran aground on stones near Scalanova Bay (Turkey).

Sirio 1905

 

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