Regia Marina — Destroyer class
Sauro-class destroyer
Sauro class
The class in numbers
- 4 Completed
- 4 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- Regia Marina
- Built
- 1924–1927
- In commission
- 1927–1941
- Preceded by
- Sella-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- Turbine-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
- 1,041 long tons (1,058 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,575 long tons (1,600 t)
- Length
- 90.16 m (295.8 ft)
- Speed
- 31 knots (57.4 km/h, 35.7 mph)
- Complement
- 154
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
- Armament
- 2 × twin 120 mm guns
- 2 × single 40 mm AA guns
- 2 × single 13.2 mm machine guns
- 2 × triple 533 mm torpedo tubes
- 52 mines
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italian destroyer Cesare Battisti | 1926 | Scuttled 1941 | |
| Italian destroyer Daniele Manin | 1925 | Sunk 1941 | |
| Italian destroyer Francesco Nullo (1925) | 1925 | 1925 | Sunk 1940 |
| Italian destroyer Nazario Sauro | 1926 | Sunk 1941 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Sauro-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.