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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Comandante Baroni	BA		OTO, Livorno	2.1943	---	---	captured by Germans on the stocks 8.9.1943
Comandante Borsini	BO		OTO, Livorno	4.1943	---	---	captured by Germans on the stocks 8.9.1943
Comandante Botti			CRDA, Trieste	8.1943	---	---	captured by Germans on the stocks 8.9.1943
Comandante Casana	CN		CNR, Ancona	2.1943	---	---	captured by Germans on the stocks 8.9.1943
Comandante De Cristofaro	DC		CT, Riva Trigoso	2.1943	---	---	captured by Germans on the stocks 8.9.1943
Comandante Dell`Anno	DL		CNR, Ancona	2.1943	---	---	captured by Germans on the stocks 8.9.1943
Comandante Fontana	FA		OTO, Livorno	summer 1943	---	---	captured by Germans on the stocks 8.9.1943
Comandante Giobbe			CT, Riva Trigoso	10/1943	---	---	captured by Germans before laying 8.9.1943
Comandante Giorgis			CT, Riva Trigoso	9/1943	---	---	captured by Germans before laying 8.9.1943
Comandante Margottini	MA		OTO, Livorno	3.1943	early 1944	---	captured by Germans on the stocks 8.9.1943
Comandante Moccagatta			OTO, Livorno	11/1943	---	---	captured by Germans before laying 8.9.1943
Comandante Rodocanacchi			OTO, Livorno	12/1943	---	---	captured by Germans before laying 8.9.1943
Comandante Ruta	RU		CRDA, Trieste	8.1943	---	---	captured by Germans on the stocks 8.9.1943
Comandante Toscano	TO		CT, Riva Trigoso	12.1942	---	---	captured by Germans on the stocks 8.9.1943

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2067
Displacement full, t	2900
Length, m	120.7
Breadth, m	12.3
Draught, m	3.60
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets geared steam turbines, 3 boilers
Power, h. p.	60000
Max speed, kts	35
Fuel, t	oil
Armament	4 x 1 - 135/45 OTO / Ansaldo 1938, 12 x 1 - 37/54 Breda 1939, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 4 DCT
Electronic equipment	EC.3/ter radar, S-Gerät sonar
Complement	272

Standard scale images

Project history

Unique Italian destroyers, at which designing experience of an initial stage of war has been considered. Design works have started late 1940, and to the mid-1942 new destroyer was transformed from hardly modified "Soldati" type to 2000t ship with 135mm main guns. On one of design stages 135mm guns took places both in single and twin mounts, but in an ultimate variant the preference has been returned to four single mounts. For speed keeping at comprehensible level machinery power have raised to 60000hp. The general arrangement scheme repeated accepted on earlier ships. One destroyer should make an exception, which was supposed to be constructed with machinery arrangement en echelon instead of the linear.

In total 20 ships were appointed to building, but really only 9 were laid down. All laid down ships have been captured by German troops in September, 1943 on slipways. Germans did not undertake serious attempts to complete these ships, but it is known, that one destroyer (Comandante Margottini) was launched during German occupations, probably, only to clear a slipway.

Comandante Corsi, Comandante Esposito, Comandante Fiorelli, Comandante Gianattasio, Comandante Milano, Comandante Novaro (CRDA, Trieste) were ordered but never laid down.