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Name | Giuseppe La Farina |
Namesake | Giuseppe La Farina (1815–1863), Italian patriot, essayist, and politician |
Builder | Cantieri navali Odero, Sestri Ponente, Kingdom of Italy |
Laid down | 29 December 1917 |
Launched | 12 March 1919 |
Completed | 18 March 1919 |
Commissioned | 19 March 1919 |
Identification | Pennant number LF |
Reclassified | Torpedo boat 1929 |
Fate | Sunk 4 May 1941 |
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) |
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Speed | 33.6 knots (62.2 km/h; 38.7 mph) |
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Complement | 4 officers, 74 non-commissioned officers and sailors |
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Giuseppe La Farina was an Italian La Masa-class destroyer. Commissioned into service in the Italian Regia Marina ("Royal Navy") in 1919, she participated in operations related to the Corfu incident in 1923. Reclassified as a torpedo boat in 1929, she took part in the Mediterranean campaign of World War II until she was sunk in 1941.