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Generale Achille Papa 1922

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Generale Antonio Cantore	CE		Odero, Sestri Ponente	11.1919	23.4.1921	7.1921	sunk 22.8.1942
Generale Antonio Cascino	CI		Odero, Sestri Ponente	3.1920	18.3.1922	5.1922	scuttled 9.9.1943
Generale Antonio Chinotto	CH		Odero, Sestri Ponente	11.1919	7.8.1921	9.1921	sunk 28.3.1941
Generale Carlo Montanari	MN		Odero, Sestri Ponente	6.1921	4.10.1922	11.1922	scuttled 9.9.1943
Generale Achille Papa	PA		Odero, Sestri Ponente	12.1919	8.12.1921	2.1922	scuttled 9.9.1943
Generale Marcello Prestinari	PR		Odero, Sestri Ponente	5.1921	4.7.1922	8.1922	sunk 31.1.1943

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	730
Displacement full, t	870
Length, m	72.5 wl 73.5 oa
Breadth, m	7.30
Draught, m	2.70 normal 3.00 full load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Tosi steam turbines, 4 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	15500
Max speed, kts	30
Fuel, t	oil 150
Endurance, nm(kts)	2000(14)
Armament	3 x 1 - 102/45 Schneider-Armstrong 1917, 2 x 1 - 76/40 Ansaldo 1917, 2 x 2 - 450 TT, 2 DCT
Complement	118

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Project history

Last representatives of Indomito family. Almost exact repetition of La Masa class, but with moderated to three number of 102mm guns arranged at centre line.

In 1929 they were re-rated as torpedo boats.

Modernizations

1936, all: + mechanical minesweeping gear

1939, all: - 2 x 1 - 76/40; + 2 x 2 - 20 Breda 1935, (2 - 4) x 1 - 8.80

Naval service

Generale Antonio Chinotto 28.3.1941 was sunk on mine laid by British submarine Rorqual off Palermo. Generale Antonio Cantore 22.8.1942 was lost on a mine laid by British submarine Porpoise at coast of Cyrenaica. Generale Marcello Prestinari 31.1.1943 was lost on a mine laid by British minelayer Welshman in Sicilian channel. Generale Antonio Cascino 9.9.1943 was scuttled by crew at La Spezia. Generale Carlo Montanari 9.9.1943 was scuttled by crew at La Spezia, salvaged by Germans but never commissioned by them and 4.10.1944 sunk by Allied aircraft at La Spezia. Generale Achille Papa 9.9.1943 was scuttled by crew at Genoa, salvaged by Germans, originally called TA7, subsequently renamed SG20 but never commissioned by them.