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Vincenzo Gioberti 1940  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Vittorio Alfieri	AF		OTO, Livorno	4.1936	20.12.1936	12.1937	sunk 28.3.1941
Giosue Carducci	CD		OTO, Livorno	2.1936	28.10.1936	11.1937	sunk 28.3.1941
Vincenzo Gioberti	GB		OTO, Livorno	1.1936	19.9.1936	10.1937	sunk 9.8.1943
Alfredo Oriani	OA		OTO, Livorno	10.1935	30.7.1936	7.1937	to France 8.1948 (D'Estaing)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1675
Displacement full, t	2254
Length, m	101.6 pp 106.7 oa
Breadth, m	10.2
Draught, m	3.42
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 3-drum boilers
Power, h. p.	48000
Max speed, kts	38
Fuel, t	oil 520
Endurance, nm(kts)	2190(18)
Armament	2 x 2 - 120/50 OTO 1936, 4 x 2 - 13.2/76, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 52 mines
Electronic equipment	hydrophone
Complement	157 - 206

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Project history

Repetition of the previous Maestrale class, but with more powerful machinery. Raise of "official" speed has appeared insignificant though real speed has increased to 33kts. Besides more powerful machinery, on these ships out-of-date 40mm/39 Vickers MGs at last have disappeared from specification. Instead of them the number of 13.2mm MGs was increased twice.

Modernizations

1939 - 1940, all: - 4 x 2 - 13.2/76; + 8 x 1 - 20/65 Breda 1939/1940

1941 - 1942, Vincenzo Gioberti, Alfredo Oriani: - 1 x 3 - 533 TT; + 1 x 1 - 120/15 OTO 1933/1934, 2 x 1 - 37/54 Breda 1939, 2 x 2 - 20/70 Scotti-Isotta Fraschini 1939, 2 DCT, S-Gerät sonar

1943, Alfredo Oriani: + FuMO 21 radar

Naval service

Two ships were lost 28.3.1941 in battle at Matapan: Vittorio Alfieri was sunk by gunfire of British destroyers Greyhound, Havock and Stuart, and Giosue Carducci by gunfire of British destroyers Jervis, Nubian and Hotspur. Vincenzo Gioberti 9.8.1943 was sunk by British submarine Simoom off La Spezia.