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SIRIO torpedo boats (1905 - 1906)


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Sirio 1905  

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Sirio     Schichau, Elbing, Germany 12.1904 13.5.1905 9.1905 discarded 3.1923
Sagittario     Schichau, Elbing, Germany 12.1904 31.5.1905 11.1905 discarded 1.1923
Spica     Schichau, Elbing, Germany 1.1905 15.7.1905 11.1905 discarded 3.1923
Scorpione     Schichau, Elbing, Germany 1.1905 14.9.1905 12.1905 collision 15.5.1917
Saffo     Schichau, Elbing, Germany 1905 30.11.1905 3.1906 wrecked 2.4.1920


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

207
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

50.0 pp 51.1 oa
Breadth, m

6.00
Draught, m

1.60
No of shafts

2
Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Schulz-Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.

3000 - 3100
Max speed, kts

25.5
Fuel, t

coal 62
Endurance, nm(kts)1920(8)
Armament

3 x 1 - 47/40 H, 3 x 1 - 450 TT
Complement

38


Standard scale images


<i>Sirio</i> 1906
Sirio 1906


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<i>Sirio</i> 1905  
Sirio 1905  


Project history

Successful ships, rated as high seas torpedo boats.

Modernizations

1917 - 1919, all survived: - 3 x 1 - 47/40; + 2 x 1 - 76/30 A1914

Naval service

Scorpione was lost 15.5.1917 as result of collision with French gunboat Surveillante off Pantelleria. Saffo 2.4.1920 ran aground on stones near Scalanova Bay (Turkey).