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ARCHIMEDE steel dispatch vessels (1888)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Galileo Galilei     R. Arsenale di Venezia 9/1885 3.5.1887 10/1888 discarded 12.1913
Archimede     R. Arsenale di Venezia 8/1885 8.3.1887 2/1888 discarded 9.1907


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

Galileo Galilei: 776

Archimede: 772

Displacement full, t

Galileo Galilei: 886

Archimede: 950

Length, m

70.0 pp 77.0 oa

Breadth, m

8.03

Draught, m

3.75

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 4 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

Galileo Galilei: 1384

Archimede: 1411

Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, t

coal 210

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

4 x 1 - 120/24 Armstrong 1.38ton BLR

Complement

73



Standard scale images


<i>Galileo Galilei </i>1888
Galileo Galilei 1888


Project history

Designed by Eng Director Carlo Vigna, and carrying a light gaff rig.

Modernizations

1895-1897, both: + 2 x 1 - 57/43 N, 2 x 5 - 37/20 H corto

1906, Galileo Galilei: - 4 x 1 - 120/24, 2 x 5 - 37/20; + 2 x 1 - 57/43 N, 1 x 1 - 11.4/94

Naval service

Galileo Galilei was sold for scrapping on 22.2.1915. Archimede was used as a powder hulk at La Spezia for some years after she was discarded.