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ARDITO destroyers (1913 - 1914)


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Ardente after war

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Ardito AI, AO, AT   Orlando, Livorno 2.1912 20.10.1912 11.1913 stricken 10.1931
Ardente AE, AR   Orlando, Livorno 3.1912 15.12.1912 4.1914 stricken 3.1937


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

695
Displacement full, t790
Length, m

72.5 wl 73.0 oa
Breadth, m

7.30
Draught, m

2.40
No of shafts

2
Machinery

2 Parsons steam turbines, 4 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.

16000
Max speed, kts

30
Fuel, t

oil 100
Endurance, nm(kts)1200(14)
Armament

1 x 1 - 120/40 A1891-1910, 4 x 1 - 76/40 A1897, 2 x 1 - 450 TT
Complement

69


Standard scale images


<i>nearly sister-ship Indomito</i> 1914
nearly sister-ship Indomito 1914


Graphics


<i>Ardente</i> after war
Ardente after war


Project history

Version of Indomito with Parsons turbines, designed by Orlando.

Modernizations

1915, both: - 2 x 1 - 450 TT; + 2 x 2 - 450 TT, 10 mines

1915 - 1916, both: oil capacity increased to 128t (full displacement was 900t, speed was 27-28kts)

1918 - 1920, both: - 1 x 1 - 120/40, 4 x 1 - 76/40; + 5 x 1 - 102/35 S1914-1915, 1 x 1 - 40/39 V1917, 2 x 1 - 6.5/80

Naval service

Both were reclassified as torpedo boats in October 1929.