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REGIA MARINA (ITALY)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

SELVE minesweepers

Selve 1941

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Eso (ex-Sokol, ex-M144)   Neptun, Rostock, Germany 1918 19/3/1919 6/1919 // 4/1941 sunk 19/1/1943
Selve (ex-Galeb, ex-M100)   Tecklenborg, Geestemünde, Germany 1917 23/5/1918 6/1918 // 4/1941 sunk 6/11/1942
Vergada (ex-Orao, ex-M97)   Tecklenborg, Geestemünde, Germany 1917 28/3/1918 4/1918 // 4/1941 to Yugoslavia 12/1943 (Orao)
Unie (ex-Kobac, ex-M121)   Neptun, Rostock, Germany 1917 10/9/1918 10/1918 // 4/1941 sunk 30/1/1943
Zirona (ex-Jastreb, ex-M112)   Tecklenborg, Geestemünde, Germany 1917 12/11/1918 10/1919 // 4/1941 damaged and wrecked 25/11/1941
Zuri (ex-Labud, ex-Gavran, ex-M106), 6/1942- Oriole   Reiherstieg, Hamburg, Germany 1917 8/7/1918 3/1919 // 4/1941 scuttled 10/7/1943

 

Displacement standard, t

515

Displacement full, t

690

Length, m

56.1 wl 59.6 oa

Breadth, m

7.30

Draught, m

2.15

No of shafts

2

Machinery

VTE, 2 Marine boilers

Power, h. p.

Eso, Unie, Zuri: 1850

Selve, Vergada, Zirona: 1840

Max speed, kts

16

Fuel, t

coal 115

Endurance, nm(kts) 2000(14)

Armament

2 x 1 - 90/45 (M1926?), 2 x 1 - 7.9/92, 30 mines, sweeps

Complement

51

Ship project history: Ex-Yugoslavian minesweepers, purchased by them from Germany in 1921 without armament. Belonged to M57 class. Used by Italians mostly as patrols.

Modernizations: none.

Naval service: Eso and Selve were sunk by British aircraft off Djerba 19/1/1943 and at Benghazi 6/11/1942 respectively, Unie was sunk by American aircraft 30/1/1943 at Bizerta. Zirona was badly damaged by British aircraft at Benghazi and ran ashore 25/11/1941. Oriole was scuttled by own crew 10/7/1943 at Augusta.

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