Italian destroyer Nicoloso da Recco

History
Italy
Name	Nicoloso da Recco
Namesake	Nicoloso da Recco
Builder	Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico
Laid down	14 December 1927
Launched	5 January 1930
Commissioned	20 May 1930
Stricken	15 July 1954
Fate	Scrapped 1954
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Navigatori-class destroyer
Displacement	1,900 long tons (1,930 t) (standard) 2,580 long tons (2,621 t) (full load)
Length	107.3 m (352 ft 0 in)
Beam	10.2 m (33 ft 6 in)
Draught	3.5 m (11 ft 6 in)
Installed power	4 water-tube boilers 55,000 hp (41,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines
Speed	32 knots (59.3 km/h; 36.8 mph)
Range	3,800 nmi (7,000 km; 4,400 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement	222–225 (wartime)
Armament	3 × twin 120 mm (4.7 in) guns 2 × single 40 mm (1.6 in) AA guns 4 × twin 13.2 mm (0.52 in) machine guns 2 × triple 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes

Nicoloso da Recco was one of a dozen Navigatori-class destroyers built for the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) in 1930. Named after the Italian Renaissance seaman Nicoloso da Recco, she served during World War II in which she was the sole survivor of her destroyer class. She shot down three Beaufort bombers while escorting a two-freighter convoy on 21 June 1942 off Tunisia.^[1] On 2 December 1942 Nicoloso Da Recco took part of the Battle of Skerki Bank, where an Italo-German convoy carrying troops and supplies to Libya was obliterated by Allied naval forces. Nicoloso Da Recco was the only vessel of her class to survive the war, and was eventually scrapped in July 1954.