Class overview | |
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Builders | Ansaldo, Genoa |
Operators | Regia Marina |
Preceded by | Aquila class |
Succeeded by | La Masa class |
Built | 1914–1917 |
In commission | 1917–1945 |
Planned | 3 |
Completed | 3 |
Lost | 2 |
Scrapped | 1 |
General characteristics (Carlo Mirabello as built) | |
Type | Destroyer |
Displacement | |
Length | 103.75 m (340 ft 5 in) |
Beam | 9.74 m (31 ft 11 in) |
Draught | 3.3 m (10 ft 10 in) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Range | 2,300 nmi (4,300 km; 2,600 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 8 officers and 161 enlisted men |
Armament |
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The Mirabello-class were a group of three destroyers (originally scout cruisers) built for the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) during World War I. Carlo Alberto Racchia was sunk by a mine in the Black Sea during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War in 1920. The remaining two ships, obsolescent by 1938, were re-rated as destroyers and participated in World War II. Carlo Mirabello was also lost to a mine while escorting a convoy in 1941. The last surviving ship, Augusto Riboty, was reconfigured as a convoy escort in 1942–1943. The torpedo tubes were removed and depth charges and 20 mm (0.79 in) anti-aircraft guns added. She survived the war and was transferred to the Soviet Union as war reparations in 1946. The ship was scrapped five years later.