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Albatros

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Airone AI   Odero, Sestri Ponente 4.1906 13.5.1907 11.1907 stricken 9.1923
Albatros AB   Odero, Sestri Ponente 8.1905 22.1.1907 8.1907 stricken 3.1923
Alcione     Odero, Sestri Ponente 8.1905 13.9.1906 8.1907 stricken 3.1923
Ardea     Odero, Sestri Ponente 8.1905 10.1.1907 5.1907 stricken 3.1923
Arpia     Odero, Sestri Ponente 6.1906 22.8.1907 4.1908 stricken 3.1923
Astore     Odero, Sestri Ponente 4.1906 22.6.1907 1.908 stricken 6.1923


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

217

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

50.0 wl 50.3 oa

Breadth, m

5.30

Draught, m

1.72

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Thornycroft boilers

Power, h. p.

2900

Max speed, kts

25

Fuel, t

coal 40

Endurance, nm(kts)330(25)
Armament

3 x 1 - 47/40 (s.o.), 3 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

38



Standard scale images


<i>nearly sister-ship Cigno</i> 1906
nearly sister-ship Cigno 1906


Graphics


<i> Albatros</i>
Albatros


Project history

Built under British design. Successful ships with good seaworthiness for their dimensions. Alcione, Airone and Arpia in 1915-1917 were converted to fast minesweepers.

Modernizations

1910 - 1913, Airone, Alcione, Ardea: were converted to oil burners.

1916 - 1918, all: - 3 x 1 - 47/53, 1 x 1 - 450 TT; + 1 x 1 - 76/40 A1916, 1 x 1 - 76/30 A1914, 1 x 1 - 13.2/76

1917, Alcione, Arpia; 1918, Airone: were converted to fast minesweepers: - 1 x 1 - 76/30; + mechanical minesweeping gear

Naval service

Arpia was sunk 17.1.1918 from collision with a wreck, later salvaged and 25.7.1918 commissioned again.