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FLAVIO GIOIA steel corvette (1883)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Flavio Gioia     R. Cantiere di Castellamare di Stabia 26.6.1879 12.6.1881 26.1.1883 discarded 9.1920


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

2493

Displacement full, t3064
Length, m

78.0 pp 84.5 oa

Breadth, m

12.8

Draught, m

5.19

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 HR, 8 boilers

Power, h. p.

4156

Max speed, kts

14

Fuel, t

coal 500

Endurance, nm(kts)10000
Armour, mmsteel; deck
Armament

8 x 1 - 149/27 B, 3 x 1 - 75/21 Uchatius 29cwt BL No1

Complement

268



Standard scale images


<i>Flavio Gioia </i>1883
Flavio Gioia 1883


Project history

A barque-rigged steel corvette designed by Eng Insp Carlo Vigna, with machinery built by Penn.

Ship protection

There was a sloping protective deck and cellular layer.

Modernizations

1892: new armament consisted of 4 x 1 - 120/40 A, 2 - 350 TT (beam)

1910s: new armament consisted of 4 x 1 - 76/40 A, 2 x 1 - 6.5/115

Naval service

In 1892 she was converted to a TS. After having been discarded in 1920 she was used as a TS for boys at Naples under the designation CM181 and unofficial name of Caracciolo until 4.3.1923.