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The Orsa class were a group of large torpedo boats or destroyer escorts built for the Italian Navy in the late 1930s. They were an enlarged version of the Spica class, with more endurance and a greater depth charge load but less powerful machinery and a lighter gun armament. The surviving pair were rebuilt as anti submarine frigates in the 1950s.
[edit] General characteristics
From Conway's All the World's Fighting ships 1922-1946
- Displacement
- Standard: 840 tons
- Full load: 1,575 tons
- Length: 82.5 m (271 ft)
- Beam: 9.69 m (31.8 ft)
- Draught: 3.74 m (12.3 ft)
- Machinery
- 2 shaft steam turbines, 16,000 shp total
- 2 boilers
- Maximum speed: 28 knots (52 km/h)
- Complement: 154
- Aramament
- 2 100 mm (3.94 in) guns
- 10 20 mm anti-aircraft guns
- 8 13.2 mm (0.52 in) (0.52 in) anti-aircraft machine guns
- 6 450 mm torpedo tubes
- 6 depth charge throwers
