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Audace

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Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Audace (ex-Intrepido, ex-江風 [Kawakaze])	AU, AD		Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK	10.1913	27.9.1916	3.1917	captured by Germany 12.9.1943 (TA20)

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	922
Displacement full, t	1170
Length, m	83.9 wl 87.5 oa
Breadth, m	8.30
Draught, m	2.50 normal 2.89 full load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	22000
Max speed, kts	30
Fuel, t	oil 248
Endurance, nm(kts)	2180(15)
Armament	7 x 1 - 102/35 S1914-1915, 2 x 1 - 40/39 V1915, 2 x 1 - 6.5/80, 2 x 2 - 450 TT
Complement	118

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Project history

Ordered by Japan in 1912 in UK as Kawakaze (together with Urakaze), but 3.7.1916 under the agreement between Japan and Italy she was transferred to latter and renamed. At first she was named Intrepido, but 25.9.1916 renamed Audace. The design provided mixed diesel-turbine machinery, however, as the order for cruising diesels has been placed in Germany, diesel leaved in Germany, and destroyer was commissioned with usual steam turbine machinery. On trials destroyer reached 34.5kts. Armament provided by the design (120mm and 76mm guns and 533mm TTs) was replaced by Italian models (7 102mm/35 guns and 2 twin 450mm TTs).

In September, 1929 ship was re-rated as torpedo boat. In 1938 she was arranged as a command and control ship for radio-controlled target San Marco. Thus both TTs were removed. To beginning of WWII speed was 28kts.

Modernizations

1938: - 2 x 2 - 450 TT

1942: - 5 x 1 - 102/35, 2 x 1 - 40/39; + 10 x 2 - 20/65 Breda 1935, 2 DCT

Naval service

Audace in September, 1943 was captured by German troops, renamed TA20 and sunk 1.11.1944 by gunfire of British escort destroyers Avon Vale and Wheatland in Adriatic sea.