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REGIA MARINA / ITALIAN NAVY (ITALY)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

OSTIA minelayers (1926-1928)

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

 

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