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VEDETTA iron sloop (1869)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Vedetta     La Foce, Genova 1862 24.10.1866 4/1869 depot ship 1901


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

814

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

56.3

Breadth, m

8.24

Draught, m

3.56

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 HSE, 2 rectangular boilers

Power, h. p.

670

Max speed, kts

11

Fuel, t

coal 140

Endurance, nm(kts)1000(9)
Armament

1 x 1 - 75/21 Uchatius 29cwt BL No1

Complement

95



Standard scale images


<i>Vedetta </i>1880
Vedetta 1880


Project history

Barque-rigged, and the first iron warship built in Italian yards.

Modernizations

1896: - 1 x 1 - 75/21; + 2 x 1 - 37/25 H lungo, 2 x 5 - 37/20 H corto

Naval service

Discarded 30.8.1903, she was transferred to the Garaventa Institute, Genoa.