Italian destroyer Antoniotto Usodimare
Service
- as Antoniotto Usodimare? — 8 June 19421,011 days of the war
- Name
- Antoniotto Usodimare
- Namesake
- Antoniotto Usodimare
- Builder
- Odero-Terni-Orlando, Genoa-Sestri Ponente
- Laid down
- 1 June 1927
- Launched
- 12 May 1928
- Fate
- Sunk by torpedo, 8 June 1942
By torpedo (1942) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,900 long tons (1,930 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,580 long tons (2,621 t)
- Length
- 107.3 m (352 ft)
- Beam
- 10.2 m (33.5 ft)
- Draught
- 3.5 m (11.5 ft)
- Speed
- 32 knots (59.3 km/h, 36.8 mph)
- Range
- 3,800 nmi (7,038 km)
- Complement
- 222
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
Antoniotto Usodimare was a Navigatori-class destroyer, operated by the Regia Marina. The ship was named after Antoniotto Usodimare. Her keel was laid at Odero-Terni-Orlando, Genoa-Sestri Ponente on 1 June 1927. She was launched on 12 May 1928.
She was one of twelve ships of her class. The class followed the Turbine-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Freccia-class destroyer.
Displacement was 1,900 long tons standard and 2,580 long tons at full load. She measured 107.3 m (352 ft) long with a beam of 10.2 m (33 ft). Her designed speed was 32 knots, and she carried a complement of 222.
Her main battery was six 120 mm (4.7 in) guns in three twin mountings. 55,000 hp drove two shafts.
She was in commission for 1,011 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 8 June 1942 by torpedo. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines
- Power
- 4 water-tube boilers
- 55000 hp
- Armament
- 3 × twin 120 mm guns
- 2 × single 40 mm AA guns
- 4 × twin 13.2 mm machine guns
- 2 × triple 533 mm torpedo tubes
- 86–104 mines
Sister ships
- Italian destroyer Alvise da Mosto
- Italian destroyer Antonio da Noli
- Italian destroyer Antonio Pigafetta
- Italian destroyer Emanuele Pessagno
- Italian destroyer Giovanni da Verrazzano
- Italian destroyer Lanzerotto Malocello
- Italian destroyer Leone Pancaldo
- Italian destroyer Luca Tarigo
- Italian destroyer Nicolò Zeno
- Italian destroyer Nicoloso da Recco
- Italian destroyer Ugolino Vivaldi
Sources
- Facts harvested from Italian destroyer Antoniotto Usodimare on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: unattributed — it.Wikipedia — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons