Italian destroyer Animoso (1913)

History
Kingdom of Italy
Name	Animoso
Namesake	Spirited
Laid down	May 1912
Launched	13 July 1913
Commissioned	May 1914
Decommissioned	April 1923
Stricken	5 April 1923
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type	Audace-class destroyer
Displacement	Full load: 840 long tons (850 t)
Length	75.5 m (247 ft 8 in) loa
Beam	7.5 m (24 ft 7 in)
Draft	2.6 m (8 ft 6 in)
Installed power	4 × water-tube boilers 16,000 shp (12,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 × steam turbines 2 × screw propellers
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range	950 nmi (1,760 km; 1,090 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement	4–5 officers 65–74 enlisted men
Armament	As built: 1 × 120 mm (4.7 in) gun 4 × 76 mm (3 in) guns 2 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes 1920: 5 × 102 mm (4 in) gun 2 × 40 mm (1.6 in) guns 2 × 6.5 mm (0.26 in) machine guns 2 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes 10 x mines

Animoso was the second and final Audace-class destroyer of the Italian Regia Marina ("Royal Navy"). Commissioned in 1914, she played an active role in the Adriatic campaign of World War I. Badly damaged by an accidental explosion in 1921, she was stricken in 1923.