Nembo Class Destroyer (1901)

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Italy built six "Nembo" class destroyers in the early 1900s. Three of the six were lost in the Great War.

Overview of 6 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name Builder Laid Down Launched Completed Fate
Nembo Pattison Shipyard, Naples 6 Aug, 1899 18 May, 1901 26 Jun, 1902 Torpedoed 17 Oct, 1916
Turbine Pattison Shipyard, Naples 20 Aug, 1899 21 Nov, 1901 28 Aug, 1902 Sunk 24 May, 1915
Aquilone Pattison Shipyard, Naples 10 Sep, 1899 16 Nov, 1902 28 Aug, 1902 Discarded 4 Mar, 1923
Borea Pattison Shipyard, Naples 2 Oct, 1899 12 Dec, 1902 6 Oct, 1903 Sunk 14 May, 1917
Zeffiro Pattison Shipyard, Naples 14 May, 1904 1 Apr, 1905 Discarded 13 Mar, 1924
Espero Pattison Shipyard, Naples 9 Jul, 1904 1 Apr, 1905 Discarded 5 Apr, 1923

Design & Construction

Machinery

Armament

Before 1906, Nembo and Turbine differed from the other ships in the class in that they replaced a pair of 14-in torpedo tubes to mount a 3-in gun.

  • five 57-mm/43 guns
  • four 14-in tubes

Nembo and Turbine before 1906:

  • one 3-in/40 gun
  • five 57-mm/43 guns
  • four 14-in tubes

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Nembo Class Destroyer
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  Borea Zeffiro Espero  
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