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REGIA MARINA (ITALY)

OTHER FIGHTING SHIPS

CURTATONE steel gunboats (1889 - 1890)

similar Cariddi 1880

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Volturno     R. Arsenale di Venezia 1885 23.12.1887 1889 discarded 3.1914
Curtatone     R. Arsenale di Venezia 1886 14.8.1888 1890 discarded 6.1913
  

Displacement normal, t

Volturno: 1155

Curtatone: 1039

Displacement full, t

1272

Length, m

54.1 pp

Breadth, m

9.89 - 9.95

Draught, m

4.53

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VC, 3 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

Volturno: 1110

Curtatone: 1043

Max speed, kts

Volturno: 11.4

Curtatone: 10.7

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

4 x 1 - 120/32 B(c.o.), 4 x 1 - 57/43 N, 2 x 1 - 37/20 H corto, 2 x 1 - 11.4/94, 1 - 350 TT (beam)

Complement

121 - 144

Project history: Barque-rigged vessels designed by Eng Insp Antenore Bozzoni.

Modernizations: 1900, both: - 2 x 1 - 37/20, 2 x 1 - 11.4/94

1905, Volturno: - 1 - 350 TT; + 2 x 1 - 37/25 H lungo, 2 x 1 - 6.5/115

1905, Curtatone: - 4 x 1 - 120/32, 1 - 350 TT; + 2 x 1 - 57/43 N, 2 x 1 - 37/25 H lungo, 2 x 1 - 6.5/115

Naval service: No significant events.

Curtatone

 

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