Italian torpedo boat Sagittario (1936)

Torpedo boat Sagittario
History
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	670 long tons (680 t) standard 1,030 long tons (1,050 t) full load
Length	82 m (269 ft 0 in)
Beam	8.2 m (26 ft 11 in)
Draught	2.82 m (9 ft 3 in)
Propulsion	2 Yarrow boilers, 2 Tosi steam turbines, 2 shafts 19,000 hp (14,200 kW)
Speed	34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Complement	110
Armament	3 × 100 mm (4 in) / 47 caliber guns 8 × 13.2 mm (0.52 in) anti-aircraft machine guns 4 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes 2 × DCTs Up to 20 mines

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.