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Alessandro Poerio 1915

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Alessandro Poerio	PO		Ansaldo, Genova	25.6.1913	4.8.1914	25.5.1915	to Nationalist Spain 6.1938 (Huesca)
Guglielmo Pepe	PE		Ansaldo, Genova	2.7.1913	17.9.1914	20.8.1915	to Nationalist Spain 6.1938 (Teruel)
Cesare Rossarol			Ansaldo, Genova	30.6.1913	15.8.1914	6.8.1915	sunk 16.11.1918

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1028
Displacement full, t	1216
Length, m	83.1 wl 85.0 oa
Breadth, m	8.00
Draught, m	2.80 normal 3.10 full load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Beluzzo steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	20000
Max speed, kts	31.5
Fuel, t	oil 200
Endurance, nm(kts)	2100(13)
Armament	6 x 1 - 102/35 S1914-1915, 2 x 2 - 450 TT, 42 mines
Complement	129

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Project history

First Italian leaders, officially were rated as "light scouts". It was supposed, that they will be armed with 8 TTs, but during building torpedo armament was decreased in favour of artillery.

Modernizations

1916, Guglielmo Pepe: + 2 x 1 - 76/40 A1916

1917, Guglielmo Pepe: - 2 x 1 - 76/40

1917, all: + 2 x 1 - 40/39 V1917

1918, Alessandro Poerio: - 6 x 1 - 102/35; + 5 x 1 - 102/45 S1917

1918, Guglielmo Pepe, Cesare Rossarol: - 6 x 1 - 102/35; + 6 x 1 - 102/45 S1917

1927, Alessandro Poerio: - 1 x 1 - 40/39

Naval service

Cesare Rossarol was lost 16.11.1918 in Northern Adriatic on Austrian mine. Two survived ships were reclassified as destroyers in July 1921.