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APE canal gunboats (1918)

Names

Ape

Vespa

Builders

Arsenale di Venezia: Ape, Vespa

Completed

8/1918: Ape, Vespa

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

11.1924: Ape, Vespa

  

Displacement normal, t

30 - 31

Displacement full, t

50

Length, m

20.5 pp

Breadth, m

3.40

Draught, m

0.90

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Buffalo cruiser petrol engines

Power, h. p.

80 - 120

Max speed, kts

9.4

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 75/17 Army field gun, 11 x 1 - 6.5/115

Complement

 

Project history: Built for service in mouths of the rivers and bays. Gunboats were armed with one field gun on wheeled carriage.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Ape 1918

 

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