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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
RD58 (ex-MT130), 1921- Albona			Danubius, Porto Ré, Austria-Hungary	10.1917	20.7.1918	1.1920	captured by Germany 10.9.1943 (Albona)
RD59 (ex-MT131), 1921- Laurana			Danubius, Porto Ré, Austria-Hungary	10.1917	24.8.1918	2/1920	captured by Germany 11.9.1943 (Laurana)
RD60 (ex-MT132), 1921- Rovigno			Danubius, Porto Ré, Austria-Hungary	11.1917	28.9.1918	7.1920	captured by Germany 10.9.1943 (Rovigno)

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	128
Displacement full, t	145
Length, m	29.4 pp 31.8 oa
Breadth, m	6.50
Draught, m	1.70
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VCE, 1 Yarrow boiler
Power, h. p.	280
Max speed, kts	11
Fuel, t	oil 4
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 76/40 Armstrong 1917, 34 mines, mechanical minesweeping gear
Complement	27

Standard scale images

Project history

Former Austrian mine transports. At the time of Armistice they were incomplete and completed for Italian Navy in 1921.

Modernizations

1941 - 1942, all: + 6 x 1 - 20/70 Scotti-Isotta Fraschini 1939

Naval service

Albona and Rovigno were captured by Germans 10.9.1943 at Syros, Laurana was captured by Germans 11.9.1943 at Venice.