Regia Marina — Destroyer class
Leone-class destroyer
The class in numbers
- 5 Planned
- 3 Completed
- 2 Cancelled
- 3 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- Regia Marina
- Built
- 1921–1924
- In commission
- 1924–1941
- Builders
- Ansaldo, Genoa
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 2,195 long tons (2,230 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,289 long tons (2,326 t)
- Length
- 113.41 m (372.1 ft) OA
- Speed
- 33 knots (61.1 km/h, 38 mph)
- Complement
- 204
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
- Armament
- 4 × twin 120 mm guns
- 2 × single 76 mm AA guns
- 2 × triple 450 mm torpedo tubes
- 60 mines
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italian destroyer Leone | 1923 | Wrecked 1941 | |
| Italian destroyer Pantera | 1924 | Scuttled 1941 | |
| Italian destroyer Tigre | 1924 | Scuttled 1941 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Leone-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.