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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

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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.