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LOVKIY destroyers (1938 - 1939 / 1949)

Legionario 1942

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Ëîâêèé [Lovkiy] (ex-Artigliere, ex-Camicia Nera)   214 OTO, Livorno, Italy 1.1937 8.8.1937 6.1938 // 23.1.1949 target 11.1954
˸ãêèé [Liogkiy] (ex-Fuciliere)   163 CNR, Ancona, Italy 5.1937 31.7.1938 1.1939 // 1.2.1950 target 11.1954

 

Displacement standard, t

1830

Displacement full, t

2460

Length, m

101.6 pp 106.7 oa

Breadth, m

10.2

Draught, m

3.50

No of shafts

2

Machinery

Liogkiy: 2 sets Beluzzo geared steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers

Lovkiy: 2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

48000

Max speed, kts

38

Fuel, t

oil 517

Endurance, nm(kts) 2200(20)

Armament

Lovkiy: 2 x 2 - 120/50 Ansaldo 1936, 1 x 1 - 120/50 Ansaldo 1940, 4 x 2 - 20/65 Breda 1935, 5 x 1 - 20/65 Breda 1940, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 4 DCT, 48 mines

Liogkiy: 2 x 2 - 120/50 Ansaldo 1936, 2 x 1 - 37/54 Breda 1939, 4 x 2 - 20/65 Breda 1935, 5 x 1 - 20/65 Breda 1940, 1 x 3 - 533 TT, 4 DCT, 48 mines

Electronic equipment

Liogkiy: EC.3/ter radar, S-Gerät sonar (presumably)

Lovkiy: S-Gerät sonar (presumably)

Complement

165 - 206

Project history: Former Italian destroyers of Soldati class, transferred by reparations.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events. 

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

 

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