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Giuseppe Sirtori

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Giuseppe Sirtori	SR		Odero, Sestri Ponente	2.1916	24.11.1916	12.1916	wrecked 14.9.1943
Giovanni Acerbi	AC		Odero, Sestri Ponente	2.1916	14.2.1917	2.1917	sunk 4.4.1941
Vincenzo Giordano Orsini	OR		Odero, Sestri Ponente	2.1916	23.4.1917	5.1917	scuttled 8.4.1941
Francesco Stocco	ST		Odero, Sestri Ponente	2.1916	5.5.1917	7.1917	sunk 24.9.1943

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	790
Displacement full, t	850
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)	2000(14)
Armament	6 x 1 - 102/35 S1914-1915, 2 x 1 - 40/39 V1915, 2 x 1 - 6.5/80, 2 x 2 - 450 TT, 10 mines
Complement	84 - 85

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Project history

Development of Pilo class with calibre of artillery increased to 102mm and twin TTs. All armament was arranged aside, out of a centre line. In 1929 they were re-rated as torpedo boats.

Modernizations

1920, all: - 6 x 1 - 102/35; + 6 x 1 - 102/45 Schneider-Armstrong 1917

1942, Giuseppe Sirtori, Francesco Stocco: - 2 x 1 - 102/45; + 2 DCT

Naval service

Benedetto Cairoli was lost 10.4.1918 in Ionian sea as result of collision with sister-ship Giuseppe Carini.

Giovanni Acerbi 4.4.1941 was sunk by British aircraft at Massaua (Eritrea). Vincenzo Giordano Orsini 8.4.1941 was scuttled by crew at Massaua (Eritrea). Giuseppe Sirtori 14.9.1943 was hard damaged by German aircraft off Corfu, ran ashore and 25.9.1943 was blown up by crew. Francesco Stocco 24.9.1943 was sunk off Corfu as a result of German aircraft attack.