Plan and right elevation line drawing of the Vifor-class destroyers as completed for Italy as scout cruisers.
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History | |
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Kingdom of Romania | |
Name | Viscol |
Namesake | Blizzard |
Operator | Royal Romanian Navy (planned) |
Ordered | 1913 |
Builder | Cantiere Pattison, Naples, Kingdom of Italy |
Fate | Requisitioned by Kingdom of Italy 5 June 1915 |
Kingdom of Italy | |
Name | Falco |
Namesake | Falcon |
Operator | Regia Marina (Royal Navy) |
Acquired | 5 June 1915 |
Laid down | 19 August 1916 |
Launched | 16 August 1919 |
Completed | 20 January 1920 |
Commissioned | 20 January 1920 |
Fate |
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Reclassified | Destroyer 5 September 1938 |
Stricken | 6 January 1939 |
Spain | |
Name | Ceuta |
Namesake | Ceuta, a Spanish city on the coast of North Africa |
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Acquired |
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Stricken | 1948 |
Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Vifor-class destroyer |
Displacement | |
Length | 94.7 m (310 ft 8 in) (overall) |
Beam | 9.5 m (31 ft 2 in) |
Draft | 3.6 m (11 ft 10 in) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines |
Speed | 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
Range | 3,000 nmi (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 146 |
Armament |
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Falco was an Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) scout cruiser in commission from 1920 to 1937. She was laid down for the Royal Romanian Navy as the destroyer Viscol but the Kingdom of Italy requisitioned her before her construction bean. Falco was not completed until after the end of World War I, but served in the Regia Marina during the interwar period.
In 1937, Italy transferred Falco to Nationalist Spain. Reclassified as a destroyer and renamed Ceuta, she served in the Spanish Nationalist Navy during the Spanish Civil War and subsequently in the Spanish Navy. She was stricken in 1948 and scrapped.