NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Luranna (ex-Fiumana II, ex-FM38), 1945- Fiumana II			Unterweser, Lehe, Germany		1919	1923 // 1938	stricken 1945?
Arco Azurro (ex-Fiumana I, ex-FM37)			Unterweser, Lehe, Germany		1919	1923 // 1939	sunk 23.10.1942

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	185
Displacement full, t	205
Length, m	44.2 wl 45.5 oa
Breadth, m	6.00
Draught, m	1.40 normal 1.71 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 1 Marine boiler
Power, h. p.	750
Max speed, kts	14.3
Fuel, t	coal 35
Endurance, nm(kts)	600(14)
Armament	1 x 1 - 88/27 SK L/30 C/08, mechanical minesweeping gear
Complement	35

Standard scale images

Project history

Shallow-draught flat-bottom minesweepers intended for operations on the rivers and in the bays (with depth to 2.3m) of German FM37 class. On modern classification they are similar to coastal minesweepers, on German classification they were large motor boats. FM37 and FM38 were completed in 1923 for merchant owner but in 1938-1939 requisitioned by Italian Navy and commissioned as minesweepers.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Arco Azurro was sunk 23.10.1942 at Genoa by Allied aircraft.