Italian destroyer Euro (1900)

History
Kingdom of Italy
Name	Euro
Namesake	Classical name for the sirocco, a Mediterranean wind
Builder	Schichau-Werke, Elbing, Germany
Laid down	9 January 1900
Launched	27 August 1900
Completed	11 October 1901
Commissioned	October 1901
Reclassified	Torpedo boat July 1921
Renamed	Strale September 1924
Namesake	Javelin
Stricken	13 November 1924
Fate	Discarded and scrapped
General characteristics
Type	Destroyer
Displacement	315 long tons (320 t) normal 348 long tons (354 t) full load
Length	60.00 m (196 ft 10 in) pp 62.05 m (203 ft 7 in) oa
Beam	6.50 m (21 ft 4 in)
Draught	2.60 m (8 ft 6 in)
Propulsion	2 × Vertical triple-expansion steam engines 4× Thornycroft boilers 6,000 ihp (4,474 kW)
Speed	31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph)
Range	290 nmi (540 km; 330 mi) at 26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph) 2,000 nmi (3,700 km; 2,300 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	59
Armament	1 × 76 mm (3 in)/40 gun 5 × 57 mm/43 2× 356 mm (14 in) torpedo tubes

Euro (a classical name for the sirocco) was an Italian Lampo-class destroyer. Commissioned into service in the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in 1901, she served in the Italo-Turkish War and World War I. Reclassified as a torpedo boat in 1921 and then used as a target ship, she was renamed Strale in September 1924 and stricken in November 1924.