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Diana

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Diana			CNQ, Fiume	5.1939	20.5.1940	11.1940	sunk 29.6.1942

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1735
Displacement full, t	2550
Length, m	108.9 pp 113.9 oa
Breadth, m	11.7
Draught, m	2.90 normal load 3.50 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Tosi-Beluzzo geared steam turbines, 4 Tosi boilers
Power, h. p.	30000
Max speed, kts	32
Fuel, t	oil 560
Armament	1 x 2 - 102/35 Terni 1914, 2 x 2 - 20/65 Breda 1935, 2 x 1 - 20/65 Breda 1939, 2 DCT (28 - 42), mines
Complement	192

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Project history

Designed as a yacht / dispatch vessel. In days of war Diana served as fast transport. In July, 1941 she served as suicide boats carrier (9 МТ, 1 MTSM and 1 MTL) for attack of Malta.

Modernizations

7.1941: ship was used as special transport with 11 MTBs (9 MT, 1 MTSM, 1 MTL).

Naval service

Diana was sunk by British submarine Thrasher 29.6.1942 N of Tobruk.