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Italian destroyer Durand de la Penne in 2004. ... Red Sea Flotilla; Italian World War II destroyers This page was last edited on 10 October 2024, at 12:31 ...
Sailing from ports in Sicily, a destroyer division could deliver some 1,200 troops with their personal equipment in one night; of 77,741 troops sent to Tunisia by sea between November 1942 and May 1943, some 52,000 were carried by the destroyers, with the loss of less than 700 men (compared to nearly 5,000 troops lost at sea while being carried ...
The Sauro-class destroyers were enlarged and improved versions of the preceding Sella class. [1] They had an overall length of 90.16 meters (296 ft), a beam of 9.2 meters (30 ft 2 in) and a mean draft of 2.9 meters (9 ft 6 in).
The attack was nevertheless repulsed by the cruiser HMS Leander, which fired 129 six-inch rounds on the Italian destroyers. While Sauro and the other destroyers successfully disengaged, Nullo was chased by the destroyer HMS Kimberley and forced to run aground on Harmil island, where she was later wrecked by RAF Blenheim bombers.
The La Masa class was a class of eight destroyers of the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) constructed during the First World War, during which one ship was lost in a collision. Like other obsolete Italian destroyers, the seven surviving ships were reclassified as torpedo boats in 1929, and served during Second World War.
The turbines were designed to produce 44,000 shaft horsepower (33,000 kW) and a speed of 32–33 knots (59–61 km/h; 37–38 mph) in service, although the ships reached speeds of 38–39 knots (70–72 km/h; 44–45 mph) during their sea trials while lightly loaded.
The Italian destroyer Ostro captured him later. [15] On 12 May, as Italian forces occupied the Dodecanese, Alpino and the battleship Regina Elena landed troops on Karpathos (known as to the Italians as Scarpanto), taking possession of the island. Alpino subsequently deployed to the Red Sea to reinforce the Italian squadron there. The war ended ...
The Sella-class destroyers were a group of four destroyers built for the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) in the 1920s. Two of these ships fought in World War II and both were sunk after the Italian capitulation to the Allies. The two other ships were sold to the Swedish Navy in 1940 and were scrapped in the late 1940s.