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Ape 1918  

Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

Ape

Vespa

Arsenale di Venezia: Ape, Vespa

8/1918: Ape, Vespa

none

none

11.1924: Ape, Vespa



Technical data


Displacement normal, t30 - 31
Displacement full, t50
Length, m

20.5 pp

Breadth, m

3.40

Draught, m

0.90

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Buffalo cruiser petrol engines

Power, h. p.

80 - 120

Max speed, kts

9.4

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 75/17 Army field gun, 11 x 1 - 6.5/115

Complement 


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Ape 1918  
Ape 1918  


Project history

Built for service in mouths of the rivers and bays. Gunboats were armed with one field gun on wheeled carriage.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.