Italian destroyer Augusto Riboty

Augusto Riboty was one of three Mirabello-class scout cruisers built for the Italian Regia Marina during the First World War, and she was reclassified as a destroyer in 1938. Gio. Ansaldo & C. laid her down at Sestri Ponente on 27 February 1915, launched her on 24 September 1916 and commissioned her on 5 May 1917. She was 103.75 metres long and displaced 1,784 tonnes at standard load. Two Parsons geared steam turbines, supplied by four Yarrow boilers, were rated at 44,000 shaft horsepower, and on trials she reached 35.03 knots. She fought in the Adriatic campaign of the First World War and was at Split during the unrest after it. In the Second World War she escorted convoys and took part in 365 operations, steaming 70,350 nautical miles, which made her the most active Italian destroyer of the war. She was decommissioned in 1950 and scrapped in 1951.