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SENTINELLA submarine chaser (1956)

Sentinella 1963

Fulmine 1969

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Sentinella (ex-VAS470), 9.1965- Fulmine P499, 9.1956- F598, 5.1965- P499   CRDA, Monfalcone 1.1954 13.11.1955 9.1956 stricken 5.1970

 

Displacement standard, t

300

Displacement full, t

340

Length, m

46.9 pp 49.7 oa

Breadth, m

6.60

Draught, m

2.10

No of shafts

2

Machinery

4 diesels

Power, h. p.

9000

Max speed, kts

30

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 2 - 450 TT, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 10 ASWRL, 2 DCT

Electronic equipment

radar, sonar

Complement

60

Project history: Sentinella was ordered in 1952 from CRDA as VAS470. She was designed as submarine chaser and was classed as a corvette. She was used as a leader for the torpedo-boat flotilla. In 1965 she was reclassified as a gunboat and renamed.

Modernizations: 1967: - 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 10 ASWRL; + 1 x 1 - 76/62 OTO Melara Compact

Naval service: No significant events.

 

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