Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War

Regia Marina — Destroyer class

Sella-class destroyer

The class in numbers

  • 4 Completed
  • 2 Lost
  • 2 Scrapped

Design and service

Type
Destroyer
Navy
Regia Marina
Built
1923–1927
In commission
1926–1940s
Builders
  • Pattison, Naples

Class specifications

Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.

As built
Displacement, standard
955 long tons (970 t)
Displacement, full load
1,457 long tons (1,480 t)
Length
84.9 m (278.5 ft)
Speed
33 knots (61.1 km/h, 38 mph)
Complement
152
Main gun
120 mm (4.7 in)
Armament
  • 1 × twin, 1 × single 120 mm guns
  • 2 × single 40 mm AA guns
  • 2 × single 13.2 mm machine guns
  • 2 × twin 533 mm torpedo tubes
  • 32 mines

Roster

Holding 2 of the 4 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.

Vessel Pennant Commissioned Fate
Italian destroyer Francesco Crispi 1943 Scuttled 1944
Italian destroyer Quintino Sella 1925 Sunk 1943

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