Regia Marina — Destroyer class
Folgore-class destroyer
Folgore class
The class in numbers
- 4 Completed
- 4 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- Regia Marina
- Built
- 1929–1931
- In commission
- 1932–1943
- Preceded by
- Freccia-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- Maestrale-class destroyer
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 1,220 long tons (1,240 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,100 long tons (2,134 t)
- Length
- 95.9 m (314.6 ft)
- Speed
- 30 knots (55.6 km/h, 34.5 mph)
- Complement
- 185
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
- Armament
- 2 × twin 120 mm guns
- 2 × single 40 mm AA guns
- 2 × twin 13.2 mm machine guns
- 2 × triple 533 mm torpedo tubes
- 2 × depth charge throwers
- 52 mines
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italian destroyer Baleno | 1931 | Wrecked 1941 | |
| Italian destroyer Folgore | 1931 | Sunk 1942 | |
| Italian destroyer Fulmine (1931) | 1931 | 1931 | Sunk 1941 |
| Italian destroyer Lampo (1931) | 1931 | 1931 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Folgore-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.