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BRONDOLO small gunboats (1909)

Brondolo 1910

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Brondolo     Arsenale di Venezia 1.1908 4.12.1909 12.1909 minelayer 7.1921, discarded 7.1934
Marghera (ex-Malghera)     Arsenale di Venezia 1.1908 29.3.1909 7.1909 minelayer 7.1921, discarded 9.1934
  

Displacement normal, t

113 - 117

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

38.1

Breadth, m

6.32

Draught, m

0.74 - 0.77

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 1 boiler

Power, h. p.

500

Max speed, kts

12.7 - 13

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 A, mines

Complement

18

Project history: Coastal shallow-draught gunboats for actions in lagoons. Both were re-classified as minelayers in 1921.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Marghera pre-war

 

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