Mirabello-class destroyer

Class overview

Builders:	Ansaldo, Genoa
Operators:	Regia Marina
Built:	1914–1917
In commission:	1917–1951
Planned:	3
Completed:	3
Lost:	2
Retired:	1
General characteristics
Type:	Destroyer
Displacement:	1,811 long tons (1,840 t) standard 2,339 long tons (2,377 t) full load
Length:	103.75 m (340 ft 5 in)
Beam:	9.75 m (32 ft 0 in)
Draught:	3.2 m (10 ft 6 in)
Propulsion:	2 shaft geared turbines 4 Yarrow type boilers 35,000 hp (26,100 kW)
Speed:	35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Range:	2,840 nmi (5,260 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement:	158
Armament:	8 × 102 mm (4.0 in) guns (8x1) 4 × 20 mm machine guns 4 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes (2×2) 100 mines

The Mirabello class were a group of 3 destroyers built for the Regia Marina during World War I.

The ships were designed as scout cruisers (esploratori), essentially enlarged versions of contemporary destroyers. All ships were built by Ansaldo in Genoa. Three ships were built but one was lost to a mine in the Black Sea in 1920, during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. The remaining two ships, obsolescent by 1938, were re-rated as destroyers and fought in World War II. Riboty was reconfigured as a convoy escort. The torpedo tubes were removed and depth charges and 20 mm anti-aircraft guns added.

Ships

Ship	Laid Down^[1]	Launched^[1]	Completed^[1]	Fate/Service
Carlo Mirabello	21 November 1914	21 December 1915	24 August 1916	Sunk 21 May 1941 by mines near Cape Dukato, Albania
Carlo Alberto Racchia	10 December 1914	2 June 1916	21 December 1916	Sunk by mine 21 June 1920 in the Black Sea
Augusto Riboty	27 February 1915	24 September 1916	5 May 1917	Allocated to USSR as war reparation, but scrapped in Italy 1951

References

1 2 3 Gardiner and Gray 1985, p. 265.

Fraccaroli, Aldo (1970). Italian Warships of World War 1. London: Ian Allen. ISBN 0-7110-0105-7.
Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
Whitley, M.J. (2000). Destroyers of World War 2. Cassell Publishing. ISBN 1-85409-521-8.

Mirabello-class destroyers

Carlo Mirabello Carlo Alberto Racchia Augusto Riboty

Preceded by: Aquila class Followed by: La Masa class

List of destroyers of the Regia Marina

Italian naval ship classes of World War I

Dreadnought battleships	Dante Alighieri^S Conte di Cavour Andrea Doria Francesco Caracciolo^X

Pre-dreadnought battleships	Ammiraglio di Saint Bon Regina Margherita Regina Elena

Ironclad battleships	Caio Duilio Italia Ruggiero di Lauria Re Umberto

Armored cruisers	Marco Polo^S Vettor Pisani Giuseppe Garibaldi Pisa San Giorgio

Protected cruisers	Giovanni Bausan^S Etna Piemonte^S Regioni Calabria^S Libia^S Quarto^S Nino Bixio Campania

Torpedo cruisers	Goito Partenope Agordat

Destroyers	Fulmine^S Lampo Nembo Soldato Indomito Ardito Audace Rosolino Pilo Poerio Aquila Mirabello Audace^S La Masa Sirtori

Torpedo boats	Condore^S Pellicano^S Sirio Pegaso Orione Gabbiano^S PN

Other vessels	Faà di Bruno^S Alfredo Cappellini^S Castore

S Single ship of class C Completed after the war X Cancelled

Italian naval ship classes of World War II

Battleships	Conte di Cavour Andrea Doria Littorio

Heavy cruisers	Trento Zara

Light cruisers	Condottieri Capitani Romani Etna

Destroyers	Mirabello Leone Sella Sauro Turbine Navigatori Freccia Folgore Maestrale Oriani Soldati Comandanti Medaglie d'Oro

Torpedo boats	Palestro Generali Curtatone Spica Orsa Ciclone Ariete

Corvettes	Gabbiano

Submarines	Marcello Marconi Balilla Mameli Pisani Ettore Fieramosca Bandiera Squalo Bragadin Argonauta Settembrini Sirena Archimede Glauco Pietro Micca Calvi Perla Adua Foca Argo Brin Liuzzi Cagni Acciaio Flutto R CA CB CM CC

Other	San Giorgio Taranto Ramb I Ramb II Ramb III Aquileia Eritrea MAS

Aircraft carriers	Aquila (not delivered) Sparviero (cancelled)

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