Legnano 1943
Azio 1950
Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
Azio | CNR, Ancona | 4.5.1927 | 1928 | discarded 1.1957 | |||
Dardanelli | CNT, Monfalcone | 29.9.1925 | 9.1926 | to Venezuela 1938 (General Soublette) | |||
Legnano | CNR, Ancona | 5/1926 | 1927 | sunk 5.10.1943 | |||
Lepanto | CNR, Ancona | 22.5.1927 | 1928 | scuttled 9.1943 | |||
Milazzo | CNT, Monfalcone | 18.11.1925 | 10.1926 | to Venezuela 1938 (General Urdaneta) | |||
Ostia | CNT, Monfalcone | 3.12.1925 | 11.1926 | scuttled 8.4.1941 |
Displacement standard, t |
615 |
Displacement full, t |
850 |
Length, m |
62.2 |
Breadth, m |
8.69 |
Draught, m |
2.59 |
No of shafts |
2 |
Machinery |
2 VTE, 2 watertube boilers |
Power, h. p. |
1500 |
Max speed, kts |
15 |
Fuel, t |
Azio, Legnano, Lepanto: oil 75 Dardanelli, Milazzo, Ostia: coal 85 |
Endurance, nm(kts) | 3500(10) |
Armament |
2 x 1 - 102/35 Terni 1914, 1 x 1 - 76/40 Ansaldo 1917, 80 mines, mechanical minesweeping gear (fitted for) |
Complement |
66 |
Project history: Ordered in 1924 for service in colonies. Can be used as minesweepers.
Modernizations: late 1940s, Azio: + radar
Naval service: Ostia was scuttled by own crew 8.4.1941 off Massawa. Lepanto was scuttled by own crew 9.9.1943 at Shanghai but salvaged by Japanese and commissioned them as gunboat Okitsu. Legnano was sunk by German aircraft 5.10.1943.
Lepanto 1934