Italian destroyer Fulmine (1898)
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Fulmine ("Lightning") was the Kingdom of Italy′s first destroyer. Commissioned into service in the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in 1900, she served in the Italo-Turkish War and World War I. She was stricken in 1921 and scrapped.
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Fulmine at La Spezia in 1900. | |
History | |
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Kingdom of Italy | |
Name | Fulmine |
Namesake | Lightning |
Builder | Cantieri navali Odero Sestri Ponente, Italy |
Laid down | 14 July 1896 |
Launched | 4 December 1898 |
Commissioned | 26 October 1900 |
Stricken | 15 May 1921 |
Fate | Discarded and scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Type | Destroyer |
Displacement |
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Length | |
Beam | 6.4 m (21 ft 0 in) |
Draught | 2.1 m (6 ft 11 in) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph) |
Range | 1,500 nmi (2,800 km; 1,700 mi) at 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
Complement | 48 |
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