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TORPEDO SHIPS

ORIONE torpedo boats

Orione 1908

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Olimpia   Odero, Sestri Ponente 3/1905 17/7/1906 4/1907 stricken 7/1920
Orfeo   Odero, Sestri Ponente 3/1905 23/4/1907 9/1907 stricken 7/1923
Orione   Odero, Sestri Ponente 3/1905 29/3/1906 2/1907 stricken 3/1923
Orsa   Odero, Sestri Ponente 3/1905 5/5/1906 4/1907 stricken 5/1921

 

Displacement normal, t

220

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

51.0 wl 52.6 oa

Breadth, m

6.00

Draught, m

1.50

No of shafts

2

Machinery

VTE, 2 Blechynden boilers

Power, h. p.

2900

Max speed, kts

25

Fuel, t

coal 45

Endurance, nm(kts) 300(24)

Armament

3 x 1 - 47/53 Nordenfelt, 3 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

38

Ship project history: Projected on the basis of a torpedo boat Pegaso, but differed by arrangement and hull structure. They have appeared bad-seaworthy and in days of WWI could reach no more than 20kts.

Modernizations: 1915 - 1918, all: - 3 x 1 - 47/53, 1 x 1 - 450 TT; + 2 x 1 - 76/30 Armstrong 1914, 1 x 1 - 13.2/76

Naval service: No significant events.

Orsa

 

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