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Nembo

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Nembo			Pattison, Napoli	8.1899	18.5.1901	6.1902	sunk 17.10.1916
Turbine			Pattison, Napoli	8.1899	21.11.1901	8.1902	sunk 24.5.1915
Aquilone			Pattison, Napoli	9.1899	16.10.1902	10.1903	discarded 3.1923
Borea			Pattison, Napoli	10.1899	12.12.1902	10.1903	sunk 14-15.5.1917
Zeffiro			Pattison, Napoli		14.5.1904	4.1905	discarded 3.1924
Espero, 1.1921- Turbine			Pattison, Napoli		9.7.1904	4.1905	discarded 4.1923

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	325
Displacement full, t	380
Length, m	63.4 pp 64.0 oa
Breadth, m	5.94
Draught, m	2.29
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 3 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	5200 - 5350
Max speed, kts	30
Fuel, t	coal 80
Endurance, nm(kts)	2200(9) (after reboilering)
Armament	Nembo, Turbine: 1 x 1 - 76/40 A, 5 x 1 - 57/43 N, 2 x 1 - 350 TT others: 5 x 1 - 57/43 N, 3 x 1 - 350 TT, 1 - 350 TT (bow)
Complement	51 - 58

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Project history

Design of L. Scaglia in association with Thornycroft.

Modernizations

1905, Nembo, Turbine: - 1 x 1 - 76/40; + 1 x 1 - 350 TT, 1 - 350 TT (bow)

1908 - 1912, all: boilers were converted to oil burning, one additional funnel was arranged.

1909, all: received fully new armament consisted of 4 x 1 - 76/40 A, 2 x 1 - 450 TT

1915, all survived: + (10 - 16) mines

1919 - 1921, all survived: 1 fwd boiler with its funnel was removed (~3400hp, ~25kts); - 1 x 1 - 76/40; + 1 x 1 - 6.5/80

Naval service

Nembo was torpedoed 17.10.1916 by Austrian submarine U16 in Southern Adriatic (U16 also was sunk, possibly, from explosion of depth charges of the same destroyer). Turbine was lost in Southern Adriatic in action with Austrian cruiser Helgoland and destroyers Csepel, Tatra and Lika 24.5.1915. Borea was sunk off Albanian coast by Austrian destroyers Csepel and Balaton 15.5.1917. Survived ships were reclassified as torpedo boats in July 1921.