Italian destroyer Alpino (1909)

Alpino was a Soldato-class destroyer of the Italian Regia Marina, one of eleven ships of a class built before the First World War. The Gio. Ansaldo & C. shipyard in Genoa laid her down on 4 December 1905, launched her on 27 November 1909 and completed her on 1 April 1910. Two sets of triple-expansion steam engines fed by three Thornycroft water-tube boilers gave an estimated 6,000 indicated horsepower and a design speed of 28.5 knots, and she carried 65 tonnes of fuel oil. She served in the Italo-Turkish War in the Ionian, Aegean and Red seas, then in the Adriatic during the First World War, where she scouted, laid mines and supported motor torpedo boats and aircraft. She was reclassified as a torpedo boat on 1 July 1921, stricken from the naval register on 1 June 1928 and scrapped.