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SEBASTIANO CABOTO gunboat (1912)

Sebastiano Caboto 1912

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Sebastiano Caboto     CNR, Palermo 3.1911 20.7.1912 11.1912 scuttled 9.9.1943
  

Displacement normal, t

877

Displacement full, t

1050

Length, m

60.0 pp 63.4 oa

Breadth, m

9.72

Draught, m

3.02

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 boilers

Power, h. p.

1203

Max speed, kts

13.2

Fuel, t

coal 100

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

6 x 1 - 76/40 A1897, 4 x 1 - 6.5/115

Complement

107

Project history: Large "colonial" gunboat, served as dispatch vessel.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Sebastiano Caboto was scuttled 9.9.1943 on shallow water at Rhodes by own crew to avoid capture, captured by Germans 12.9.1943 and sunk at the same place by British bombers this month being repaired.

Sebastiano Caboto 1913

 

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