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ROSOLINO PILO destroyers (1915 - 1916)


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Pilade Bronzetti

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Rosolino Pilo PL, 1954- M5336   Odero, Sestri Ponente 8.1913 24.3.1915 5.1915 stricken 10.1954
Giuseppe Cesare Abba AB, 1954- M5330   Odero, Sestri Ponente 8.1913 25.5.1915 7.1915 minesweeper 1953, stricken 9.1958
Pilade Bronzetti, 1.1921- Giuseppe Dezza BR, 1921- DZ   Odero, Sestri Ponente 9.1913 26.10.1915 1.1916 captured by Germany 16.9.1943 (TA35)
Giuseppe Missori MS   Odero, Sestri Ponente 1.1914 20.12.1915 3.1916 captured by Germany 10.9.1943 (TA22)
Antonio Mosto MO, MT, 1954- M5335   Pattison, Napoli 10.1913 20.5.1915 7.1915 minesweeper 1953, stricken 12.1958
Ippolito Nievo NV   Odero, Sestri Ponente 8.1913 24.7.1915 10.1915 stricken 4.1938
Francesco Nullo, 1.1921- Fratelli Cairoli CL   Pattison, Napoli 9.1913 12.11.1914 5.1915 sunk 23.12.1940
Simone Schiaffino SF, SH   Odero, Sestri Ponente 9.1913 11.9.1915 11.1915 sunk 24.4.1941


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

770

Displacement full, t912
Length, m

72.5 wl 73.0 oa

Breadth, m

7.30

Draught, m

2.33 normal 2.72 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Tosi steam turbines, 4 Thornycroft boilers

Power, h. p.

16000

Antonio Mosto, Francesco Nullo: 14800

Max speed, kts

30

Antonio Mosto, Francesco Nullo: 29

Fuel, t

oil 150

Endurance, nm(kts)1200(14)
Armament

4 x 1 - 76/40 Ar1916, 2 x 1 - 76/40 A1916 AA, 4 x 1 - 450 TT, 10 mines

Complement

69 - 79



Standard scale images


<i>Giuseppe Cesare Abba </i>1954
Giuseppe Cesare Abba 1954
<i>Rosolino Pilo</i> 1916
Rosolino Pilo 1916
<i>Rosolino Pilo</i> 1940
Rosolino Pilo 1940


Graphics


<i>Pilade Bronzetti</i>
Pilade Bronzetti
<i>Giuseppe Cesare Abba </i>1951
Giuseppe Cesare Abba 1951
<i>Rosolino Pilo</i> in WWII
Rosolino Pilo in WWII


Project history

Development of Indomito class with artillery of uniform calibre, increased capacity of oil fuel tanks and cruising turbines.

In 1929 they were re-rated as torpedo boats. By 1940 their speed did not exceed 25kts.

Modernizations

1919 - 1921, all: - 6 x 1 - 76/40; + 5 x 1 - 102/35 S1914-1915, 2 x 1 - 40/39 V1917, 2 x 1 - 6.5/80

1941 - 1942, all survived: - 3 x 1 - 102/35, 2 x 1 - 40/39, 2 x 1 - 450 TT; + 6 x 1 - 20/65 Breda 1940, 2 DCT

1953 - 1954, Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Antonio Mosto: were converted to fast minesweepers; - 1 x 1 - 102/35, (2 - 4) x 1 - 20/65, 2 x 1 - 450 TT; + radar, mechanical minesweeping gear

Naval service

Fratelli Cairoli 23.12.1940 was lost on a mine laid by British submarine Porpoise off Tripoli. Simone Schiaffino 24.4.1941 was lost on Italian mines at coast of Tunisia. Giuseppe Dezza 16.9.1943 was captured by German troops at Fiume, renamed TA35 and 17.8.1944 was lost on a mine off Pola. Giuseppe Missori 10.9.1943 was captured by German troops at Durazzo, renamed TA22, 25.6.1944 hard damaged by British aircraft SE off Trieste and scuttled at Trieste 2.5.1945.