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Freccia-class destroyer

1930s class of destroyers of the Italian and Greek navies

Field	Value
infobox_caption	Freccia class
section1	{{Infobox ship/image
image	RCT Freccia cartolina.jpg
image_caption	Freccia
section2	{{Infobox ship/class overview
name	Freccia class
builders	*Cantieri del Tirreno, Riva Trigoso
operators	*
class_before
class_after
subclasses	Kountouriotis class
built_range	1929–1933
in_commission_range	1931–1946
total_ships_completed	8
total_ships_lost	6
total_ships_scrapped	2
section3	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
type	Destroyer
displacement	*1225 t (standard)
length	96.15 m
beam	9.75 m
draught	3.3 -
propulsion	2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines
power	*3 Thornycroft boilers
*{{cvt	44000	hp	kW	lk	on}}
speed	30 kn
range	4600 nmi at 12 kn
complement	185
* 2 × twin [[120 mm Italian naval gun#Ansaldo 1926	{{convert	120	mm	in	abbr	on}} guns]]
* 2 × triple {{convert	533	mm	in	0	abbr	on}} torpedo tubes

Cantieri navali Odero, Sestri Ponente
Greece Royal Hellenic Navy
2150 t (full load)
44000 hp
2 × twin 120 mm guns
2 × single 40 mm AA guns
2 × twin 13.2 mm machine guns
2 × triple 533 mm torpedo tubes
2 × depth charge throwers
54 mines The Freccia-class destroyer was a class of destroyers built for the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) in the 1930s. Four modified ships were built and delivered in 1933 for Greece.

Ships

Italian Navy

:Built by Odero, Sestri Ponente :launched 6 September 1930, completed 25 January 1932 :Captured by the Germans and renamed TA31. Scuttled on 24 April 1945.

:Built by CT Riva Trigioso :launched 3 August 1930, completed 21 October 1931 :In the Spanish Civil War, on 15 August 1937, she shelled, torpedoed and disabled the Panamanian tanker George McKnight off Tunis. :Sunk on 8 August 1943 off Genoa by bombing.

:Built by CT Riva Trigioso :launched 17 January 1932, completed 10 May 1932 :In the Spanish Civil War, on 11 August 1937, she torpedoed and sank the Spanish Republican tanker Campeador in the strait of Sicily. :Sunk by a mine on 3 February 1943 with the loss of 170 men including Lt. Cdr. Enea Picchio, the commanding officer, while 39 men survived.

:Built by Odero, Sestri Ponente :launched 26 March 1931, completed 6 February 1932 :Rammed and sank UK submarine on 14 June 1940. Beached herself on 21 June 1942 near Cape Bon and was finished off by torpedoes from the submarine .

Kountouriotis-class destroyer

Hellenic Navy

The Greek Navy ordered four destroyers from the Italian company Odero in October 1929 to a modified design, similar to the Dardo type, as the RUSI Journal notes, for about . It was named the Kountouriotis class. The chief difference with the Italian ships was the substitution of four single 120 mm guns (Ansaldo Model 1926) for the twin turrets used in the Italian Navy ships. According to the RUSI Journal, the ships' armament was to consist of four 4.7 inch, three 2-pounder, AA guns and six 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes. The ships were to have a displacement of 1,450 tons, and a maximum speed of 40 knots.

:Built by Odero, Sestri Ponente :launched 21 October 1931, commissioned November 1932 :Sunk by German aircraft, 22 April 1941.

:Built by Odero, Sestri Ponente :commissioned May 1933 :Served in World War II, decommissioned in 1946, Scrapped 1947.

:Built by Odero, Sestri Ponente :commissioned May 1933 :Sunk by German aircraft, 20 April 1941.

:Built by Odero, Sestri Ponente :launched 29 August 1931, commissioned November 1932 :Served in World War II, decommissioned and scrapped in 1946.

The two surviving ships, Spetsai and Kountouriotis, served in the Eastern Mediterranean as part of the Free Greek Navy until late 1943. They were then laid up at Port Said, Egypt for want of Italian spare parts, and because their crews were needed for new ships built in the UK for the Free Greek Navy.

Bibliography

References

(November 1929). "Navy Notes - Greece: New Destroyers Ordered". [[Royal United Service Institution]].

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