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ANDREA BAFILE escort gunboats (1922)

Ernesto Giovannini 1940

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Andrea Bafile BF   Pattison, Napoli 1920 8.12.1921 1922 stricken 1939
Carlo del Greco DD   Pattison, Napoli 1920 9.9.1922 1922 stricken 1939
Tolosetto Farinati FR   Pattison, Napoli 1920 16.5.1922 1922 stricken 1939
Ernesto Giovannini GV   Pattison, Napoli 3.1920 11.3.1922 1922 stricken 12.1950
Emanuele Russo RS   Pattison, Napoli 1920 26.1.1922 1922 fire 29.3.1923
Alessandro Vitturi VT   Pattison, Napoli 1920 27.6.1922 1922 stricken 1939
  

Displacement normal, t

260

Displacement full, t

284

Length, m

52.0 - 52.1 pp

Breadth, m

5.70

Draught, m

1.80

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Thornycroft boilers

Power, h. p.

2400

Max speed, kts

24

Fuel, t

oil 40

Endurance, nm(kts) 1100(11)

Armament

2 x 1 - 102/35 Schneider-Armstrong 1914-15, 2 x 1 - 6.5/115, 1 x 2 - 450 TT, 12 mines

Complement

53

Project history: Designed on the basis of Pattison-built small torpedo boats.

Modernizations: 1939 - 1940, Ernesto Giovannini: - 2 x 1 - 6.5/115, 12 mines; + 1 x 1 - 13.2/76, 2 DCR.

Naval service: Emanuele Russo sunk after fire 29.3.1923 at Naples.

Ernesto Giovannini 1934

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