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| Class overview | |
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| Name | Pilo class |
| Builders | |
| Operators |
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| Succeeded by | Generali-class destroyer |
| Built | 1913 - 1916 |
| In service | 1915 - 1958 |
| Completed | 8 |
| Lost | 4 |
| Retired | 4 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Pilo class torpedo boat |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 73 m (240 ft) |
| Beam | 7.3 m (24 ft) |
| Draught | 2.3 m (7 ft 7 in) |
| Installed power | 16,000 brake horsepower (12,000 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
| Range | 1,200 nmi (2,200 km; 1,400 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Complement | 69-79 |
| Armament |
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The Rosolino Pilo[a] class was a class of eight destroyers of the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) constructed before and during the First World War. Like other obsolete Italian destroyers, they were reclassified as torpedo boats in 1929, and seven ships served throughout the Second World War. Two ships were sunk by mines while under Italian service during the Second World War, with two more being seized by Nazi Germany following the Italian Armistice in 1943. The remaining three ships survived the war and continued in use with the post-war Italian Navy, with the last two of the class being decommissioned in 1958.
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