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Angelo Bassini post-WWI

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Giuseppe La Masa	LM		Odero, Sestri Ponente	9.1916	6.9.1917	9.1919	captured by Germany 9.9.1943
Angelo Bassini	BS		Odero, Sestri Ponente	10.1916	28.3.1918	5.1918	sunk 28.5.1943
Agostino Bertani, 1.1921- Enrico Cosenz	CS		Odero, Sestri Ponente	12.1917	6.6.1919	6.1919	scuttled 27.9.1943
Benedetto Cairoli			Odero, Sestri Ponente	9.1916	28.12.1917	2.1918	collision 10.4.1918
Giacinto Carini	CA, CR, 1954- M5331		Odero, Sestri Ponente	9.1916	7.11.1917	11.1917	minesweeper 1954, stricken 12.1958
Nicola Fabrizi	FB, 1954- M5333		Odero, Sestri Ponente	9.1916	8.7.1918	7.1918	minesweeper 1954, stricken 2.1957
Giuseppe La Farina	FR, LF		Odero, Sestri Ponente	12.1917	12.3.1919	3.1919	sunk 4.5.1941
Giacomo Medici	MD		Odero, Sestri Ponente	10.1916	6.9.1918	9.1918	sunk 16.4.1943

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	785
Displacement full, t	851
Length, m	72.5 wl 73.5 oa
Breadth, m	7.30
Draught, m	2.80
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Tosi steam turbines, 4 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	15500
Max speed, kts	30
Fuel, t	oil 150
Endurance, nm(kts)	2230(12.5)
Armament	4 x 1 - 102/45 SA1917, 2 x 1 - 76/40 A1917, 2 x 1 - 6.5/80, 2 x 2 - 450 TT, 10 mines
Complement	78

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Project history

Repeated Sirtori class, differed from the latter by new 102mm guns with longer bore (45 against 35clb) and replacement of 40mm AA MGs by 76/40mm guns. Because of increased weight of new artillery it was necessary to shrink number of main guns from six to four, however at the expense of placing of part of them at centre line the side salvo was not decreased. In 1929 all were re-rated as torpedo boats.

Modernizations

1940 - 1942, Angelo Bassini, Enrico Cosenz, Nicola Fabrizzi, Giuseppe La Farina, Giacomo Medici: - (1 - 2) x 1 - 102/45, 2 x 1 - 76/40, 2 x 1 - 6.5/80, (0 - 1) x 2 - 450 TT; + 6 x 1 - 20/65 Breda 1940, 0 - 2 DCT

1942, Giuseppe La Masa, Giacinto Carini: - 3 x 1 - 102/45, 2 x 1 - 76/40, 2 x 1 - 6.5/80, 1 x 2 - 450 TT; + 4 x 2 - 20/65 Breda 1935, 1 x 3 - 533 TT

1953 - 1954, Giacinto Carini: was converted to fast minesweeper; - 3 x 2 - 20/65, 1 x 3 - 533 TT, 1 x 2 - 450 TT; + 1 x 1 - 102/45 Schneider-Armstrong 1917, mechanical minesweeping gear, radar

1953 - 1954, Nicola Fabrizzi: was converted to fast minesweeper; new armament consisted of 1 x 1 - 102/45 Schneider-Armstrong 1917, 2 DCT, mechaical minesweeping gear, radar

Naval service

Benedetto Cairoli collided 10.4.1918 with Giacinto Carini in Ionian sea.

Giuseppe la Farina 4.5.1941 was lost on Italian mines at E coast of Tunisia. Giacomo Medici 16.4.1943 was sunk by American aircraft at Catania. Angello Bassini 28.5.1943 was sunk by American aircraft at Leghorn. Giuseppe la Masa 9.9.1943 was captured by German troops and 11.9.1943 blown up at Naples. Enrico Cosenz 27.9.1943 was hard damaged by German aircraft and scuttled by crew in Adriatic sea.