


Granatiere
Country | Italy |
Ship Class | Soldati-class Destroyer |
Builder | CNR Palermo, Sicily, Italy |
Launched | 24 Apr 1938 |
Commissioned | 1 Feb 1939 |
Decommissioned | 1 Jul 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 GRanatiere was named after grenadiers. She was decommissioned by the Italian Navy in 1958.
ww2dbaseSource: Wikipedia.
Last Major Revision: Dec 2007
Granatiere Operational Timeline
1 Feb 1939 | Granatiere was commissioned into service. |
1 Jul 1958 | Granatiere was decommissioned from service. |
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