NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Sentinella (ex-VAS470), 9.1965- Fulmine	P499, 9.1956- F598, 5.1965- P499		CRDA, Monfalcone	1.1954	13.11.1955	9.1956	stricken 5.1970

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	300
Displacement full, t	340
Length, m	46.9 pp 49.7 oa
Breadth, m	6.60
Draught, m	2.10
No of shafts	2
Machinery	4 diesels
Power, h. p.	9000
Max speed, kts	30
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 2 - 450 TT, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 10 ASWRL, 2 DCT
Electronic equipment	radar, sonar
Complement	60

Standard scale images

Project history

Sentinella was ordered in 1952 from CRDA as VAS470. She was designed as submarine chaser and was classed as a corvette. She was used as a leader for the torpedo-boat flotilla. In 1965 she was reclassified as a gunboat and renamed.

Modernizations

1967: - 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 10 ASWRL; + 1 x 1 - 76/62 OTO Melara Compact

Naval service

No significant events.