


Camicia Nera
Country | Italy |
Ship Class | Soldati-class Destroyer |
Builder | OTO Livorno, Tuscany, Italy |
Launched | 8 Aug 1937 |
Commissioned | 30 Jun 1938 |
Sunk | 1 Jan 1958 |
Displacement | 1,620 tons standard; 2,550 tons full |
Length | 350 feet |
Beam | 33 feet |
Draft | 10 feet |
Machinery | Three Yarrow boilers, two Belluzzo or Parsons type turbines, two shafts |
Power Output | 48,000 shaft horsepower |
Speed | 38 knots |
Range | 2,200nm at 20 knots |
Crew | 206 |
Armament | 2x2x120mm guns, 1x120mm starshell gun, 12x13.2mm machine guns, 6x600mm torpedo tubes |
Contributor: C. Peter Chen
ww2dbaseDestroyer Camicia Nera was named after the fascist Blackshirts forces. After the fall of Benito Mussolini's fascist government, she was renamed Artigiliere. She was given to Russia after WW2 as war reparations.
ww2dbaseSource: Wikipedia.
Last Major Revision: Dec 2007
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30 Jun 1938 | Camicia Nera was commissioned into service. |
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