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Giuseppe Miraglia  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Giuseppe Miraglia (ex-Città di Messina)			// Arsenale di La Spezia	5.3.1921	20.12.1923	1927	submarine depot ship 9.1943

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	4880
Displacement full, t	5913
Length, m	115.0 pp 121.2 oa
Breadth, m	15.0
Draught, m	5.20 mean
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 8 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	12000
Max speed, kts	21
Fuel, t	oil 430
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	4 x 1 - 102/35 Schneider-Armstrong 1914-15, 2 catapults, 20 aircraft (M.5, M.7, M.18, P.6)
Complement	196

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Project history

Laid down as a passenger steamer Citta di Messina, bought incomplete by the Italian Government for conversion to seaplane tender. Works on conversion were begun 24.1.1925. Amidships large hangar was fitted. Over a hangar on a centre line there were superstructures and two funnels. Fwd and aft from them the hangar roof formed similarity of the flight deck serving for prelaunch maintenance of planes. Launch was effected by two catapults, one in a fore end and second aft. Handling of landed seaplanes was realised by cranes through lateral doors in hangar walls. In total on 20 seaplanes could be based: 4 large and 16 small.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

In beginning of war Giuseppe Miraglia was used in a role of training vessel and after September, 1943 as depot ship for Italian submarines at Malta. Stricken finally in 1950.