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Animoso 1914

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Audace			Orlando, Livorno	4.1912	4.5.1913	3.1914	collision 30.8.1916
Animoso	AN		Orlando, Livorno	5.1912	13.7.1913	5.1914	stricken 4.1923

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	750
Displacement full, t	840
Length, m	74.8 wl 75.5 oa
Breadth, m	7.50
Draught, m	2.60
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Zoelly steam turbines, 4 White-Forster boilers
Power, h. p.	16000
Max speed, kts	30
Fuel, t	oil 100
Endurance, nm(kts)	950(14)
Armament	1 x 1 - 120/40 A1891-1910, 4 x 1 - 76/40 A1897, 2 x 1 - 450 TT
Complement	69 - 79

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Project history

Project was developed on base of Indomito, but with Swiss-made turbines (by Escher-Wyss) instead of Parsons`s system. As a whole machinery has appeared non-efficient.

Modernizations

1919, Animoso: - 1 x 1 - 120/40, 4 x 1 - 76/40; + 5 x 1 - 102/35 S1914-1915, 2 x 1 - 40/39 V1917, 2 x 1 - 6.5/80, 10 mines

Naval service

Audace was lost 30.8.1916 E off Calabria (Ionian sea) as result of collision with s/s Brasile cargo vessel. Animoso 29.7.1921 was strongly suffered from boiler explosion, never repaired and in 1923 has been handed over on demolition.