Torpedo boat Sagittario
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History | |
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Kingdom of Italy | |
Name | Sagittario |
Builder | CNQ, Fiume |
Laid down | 14 November 1935 |
Launched | 21 June 1936 |
Commissioned | 8 October 1936 |
Decommissioned | 1 October 1964 |
Reclassified | 1949 |
Identification | SG/F557 |
Honours and awards | Silver Medal of Military Valour |
Fate | Scrapped 1964 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Spica-class torpedo boat |
Displacement |
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Length | 82 m (269 ft 0 in) |
Beam | 8.2 m (26 ft 11 in) |
Draught | 2.82 m (9 ft 3 in) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
Complement | 110 |
Armament |
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The Italian torpedo boat Sagittario was a Spica-class torpedo boat built for the Regia Marina in 1936. During the Battle of the Mediterranean, in the Second World War, Sagittario was involved in several convoy missions, the most notable that known as the "Sagittario convoy", in the course of the Battle of Crete, for which her commander, Giuseppe Cigala Fulgosi, was awarded the Gold Medal of Military Valour. Sagittario survived the war. Re-classified as corvette in 1949, she was scrapped in 1964.