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MINE WARFARE SHIPS

FASANA minelayers

Pelagosa 1943

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Buccari   Arsenale di Castellamare di Stabia   1926 1927 scuttled 9/9/1943
Durazzo   Arsenale di Castellamare di Stabia   1/4/1926 1926 sunk 22/7/1943
Fasana   Arsenale di Castellamare di Stabia   29/9/1924 3/1925 captured by Germany 10/9/1943, re-commissioned late 1945, discarded 9/1950
Pelagosa   Arsenale di Castellamare di Stabia   1926 1927 scuttled 9/9/1943

 

Displacement standard, t

531

Displacement full, t

590

Length, m

58.5 pp 66.3 oa

Breadth, m

9.75

Draught, m

1.73

No of shafts

2

Machinery

diesels

Power, h. p.

700

Max speed, kts

10

Fuel, t

diesel oil 20

Endurance, nm(kts) 700(10)

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 Ansaldo 1917, 54 mines, sweeps

Complement

66

Ship project history: Can be used as minesweepers.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Durazzo was sunk by British submarine Safari  22/7/1943 E of Corsica. Fasana was captured by German troops at Trieste 10/9/1943, scuttled by them 2/5/1945 off Tagliamento, raised in July, 1945 and repaired. Buccari and Pelagosa were scuttled by own crews in September, 1943 at La Spezia and Genoa respectively.

Buccari 1928

 

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