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GUARDIANO iron gunboats

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Guardiano   Arsenale di La Spezia 1871 1/5/1874 10/1874 harbour duty ship 1895, discarded 3/1923
Sentinella   Arsenale di La Spezia 1872 31/12/1874 12/1874 discarded 5/1904
  

Displacement normal, t

261

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

30.5

Breadth, m

8.31

Draught, m

1.98

No of shafts

2

Machinery

HC, 1 boiler

Power, h. p.

Guardiano: 231

Sentinella: 260

Max speed, kts

Guardiano: 8.7

Sentinella: 9.1

Fuel, t

coal

Armament

1 x 1 - 229/14 RML Mk IV

Complement

48

Ship project history: Small "Rendell"-type gunboats.

Modernizations: 1900, both: - 1 x 1 - 229/14; + 1 x 1 - 149/40 Krupp, 1 x 1 - 6.5/80

early 1900s, both?: - 1 x 1 - 149/40; + 1 x 1 - 120/40 Armstrong 1891

1906, Guardiano: - 1 x 1 - 120/40, 1 x 1 - 6.5/80; + 2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss

Naval service: No significant events.

 

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