NAVYPEDIA

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Nazario Sauro prewar

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Cesare Battisti	BT		Odero, Sestri Ponente	2.1924	11.12.1926	4.1927	scuttled 3.4.1941
Daniele Manin	MA		CNQ, Fiume	10.1924	15.6.1925	3.1927	sunk 3.4.1941
Francesco Nullo	NL		CNQ, Fiume	10.1924	14.11.1925	4.1927	sunk 21.10.1940
Nazario Sauro	SA, SU		Odero, Sestri Ponente	2.1924	12.5.1926	9.1926	sunk 3.4.1940

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1260
Displacement full, t	1575
Length, m	89.6 wl 90.2 oa
Breadth, m	9.20
Draught, m	2.90
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	36000
Max speed, kts	35
Fuel, t	oil 260
Endurance, nm(kts)	2600(12)
Armament	2 x 2 - 120/45 Vickers-Terni 1924, 2 x 1 - 40/39 Vickers-Terni 1917, 2 x 1 - 13.2/76, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 52 mines
Complement	155

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Project history

Odero design. Development of Sella class with increased dimensions, triple TTs and 120mm guns in twin mounts. They had bridge and a conning tower of larger size. Damage tolerance of machinery was raised at the expense of re-planning of boiler rooms: now each boiler was placed in own separate compartment. Design standard displacement was 1040t, and actual displacement was over than 1200t. On trials all destroyers exceeded contract speed, but at full load made hardly more than 31kts. It has besides, appeared, that hull longitudinal strength is insufficient and it was necessary to stiffen it.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Cesare Battisti was damaged by British aircraft 3.4.1941 at Arabian coast (Red sea), ran ashore and was demolished by crew. Nazario Sauro and Daniele Manin were sunk 3.4.1941 by British aircraft in Red sea. Francesco Nullo was torpedoed 20.10.1940 by British destroyer Kimberly in Red sea, ran aground and next day destroyed by British aircraft.