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Alabarda 1952  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Ammiraglio Magnaghi (ex-Larne), 1948- Eritrea, 4.1950- Alabarda	AL, 1953- F560		Lobnitz, Renfrew, UK	1.1943	20.9.1943	11.1943 // 6.1946	stricken 7.1968

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	990
Displacement full, t	1258
Length, m	68.6
Breadth, m	10.8
Draught, m	3.13 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Power, h. p.	2400
Max speed, kts	16.5
Fuel, t	oil 230
Endurance, nm(kts)	5000(10)
Armament	1 x 1 - 100/47 OTO 1937, 4 x 1 - 37/54 Breda 1939, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (90 - 92 in ASW role)
Electronic equipment	type 271 or type 272 radar, type 128 sonar
Complement	85 - 138

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Project history

Ex-British minesweeper of Algerine class. Primarily she was taken as survey vessel Ammiraglio Magnaghi but soon reclassified as colonial corvette (in June 1946) and ASW corvette (in April 1950).

Modernizations

1954: - 4 x 1 - 37/54, radar; + 1 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, SO-13 radar.

1956: - 1 x 1 - 100/47, 1 DCR

Naval service

No significant events.