History | |
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Kingdom of Italy | |
Name | Agostino Bertani |
Namesake | Agostino Bertani (1812–1886), Italian patriot and politician |
Builder | Cantieri navali Odero, Sestri Ponente, Kingdom of Italy |
Laid down | 23 December 1917 |
Launched | 6 June 1919 |
Completed | 13 June 1919 |
Commissioned | 13 June 1919 |
Identification | Pennant number BR |
Stricken | January 1921 |
Reinstated | January 1921 |
Renamed | Enrico Cosenz January 1921 |
Namesake | Enrico Cosenz (1820–1898), Italian general and politician |
Identification | Pennant number CS |
Reclassified | Torpedo boat 1929 |
Fate | Scuttled 27 September 1943 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Type | Destroyer |
Displacement | |
Length | 72.5 m (237 ft 10 in) (waterline) |
Beam | 7.3 m (23 ft 11 in) |
Draught | 2.8 m (9 ft 2 in) |
Installed power | |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 33.6 knots (62.2 km/h; 38.7 mph) |
Range |
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Complement | 4 officers, 74 non-commissioned officers and sailors |
Armament |
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Agostino Bertani was an Italian La Masa-class destroyer. She was commissioned into service in the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in 1919. Her crew supported Gabriele D'Annunzio′s actions in Fiume in 1920, and as a consequence she was renamed Enrico Cosenz in 1921. Reclassified as a torpedo boat in 1929, she took part in the Mediterranean campaign and the Adriatic campaign of World War II until the Italian armistice with the Allies in 1943, shortly after which her crew scuttled her to prevent her capture by German forces. She was involved in four collisions during her operational career.