Ciclone class
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| Technical specifications | |
| Ship type : | Torpedo boat |
| Displacement : | 920 ts standard 1,651 ts maximum |
| Length: | 82.50 m |
| Width: | 9.90 m |
| Draft : | 3.77 m |
| Drive : | 2 Yarrow steam boilers 2 steam turbines , 2 shafts 16,000 HP (11,900 kW ) |
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| Speed : | 26 kn (48 km / h ) |
| Crew : | 154 |
| Armament: | 2 x 100 mm guns 8 × 20-mm anti-aircraft - guns 8 x 13.2-mm anti-aircraft gun 4 * 450 mm torpedo tubes 4 pitcher for water bombs . |
The Ciclone-class was a torpedo boat- class used by the Italian Navy during World War II . The ships were an enlarged version of the Orsa class with improved stability and more powerful anti-submarine armament. Although they were usually referred to as torpedo boats, the construction of the Ciclone-class boats was more of an escort destroyer and was therefore mainly used for anti -submarine defense.
A total of 16 ships were built between 1942 and 1943 at various shipyards in Italy, 11 of which did not survive the war.
literature
- Mike J. Whitley: Destroyer in World War II. Technology, classes, types. ("Destroyers of World War 2"). Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-613-01426-2 .
- Giuseppe Fioravanzo et al. a. (Ed.): I cacciatorpediniere italiani 1900–1971. Rome, 1971 (Le Navi d'Italia; vol. 5).