Regia Marina — Destroyer class
Oriani-class destroyer
Oriani class
The class in numbers
- 4 Completed
- 3 Lost
- 1 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- Regia Marina
- Built
- 1935–1936
- In commission
- 1937–1954
- Preceded by
- Maestrale-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- Soldati-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
- 1,750 long tons (1,778 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,450 long tons (2,489 t)
- Length
- 106.7 m (350.1 ft)
- Speed
- 33 knots (61.1 km/h, 38 mph)
- Complement
- 207
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
- Armament
- 2 × twin 120 mm guns
- 2 × single 120 mm star shell guns
- 4 × twin 13.2 mm machine guns
- 2 × triple 533 mm torpedo tubes
- 56 mines
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italian destroyer Alfredo Oriani | 1936 | Transferred 1948 | |
| Italian destroyer Giosuè Carducci | 1936 | Sunk 1941 | |
| Italian destroyer Vincenzo Gioberti | 1936 | Sunk 1943 | |
| Italian destroyer Vittorio Alfieri | 1936 | Sunk 1941 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Oriani-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.