Luca Tarigo was an Italian destroyer of the Navigatori class, one of a dozen ships built for the Regia Marina in the late 1920s to counter the large French destroyers of the Jaguar and Guépard classes. She was built by Ansaldo at Genoa and completed in 1929. She was about 107 metres long and displaced 1,900 tonnes at standard load and 2,580 tonnes at deep load. Two geared Parsons steam turbines were designed for 55,000 shaft horsepower and 32 knots in service, though the class reached 38 to 41 knots on trials. Her armament was six 120 mm guns in three twin turrets and six 533 mm torpedo tubes, with room for 86 to 104 mines. In the Second World War she escorted troop convoys on the Naples, Palermo and Tripoli route and laid minefields off Cape Bon. On 16 April 1941 she led the convoy Tarigo, was attacked by four British destroyers off the Kerkennah shoals and was lost in the fighting.
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Luca Tarigo TA Ansaldo, Genoa 8.1927 9.12.1928 11.1929 sunk 16.4.1941
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Luca Tarigo was one of a dozen Navigatori-class destroyers built for the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) in the late 1920s.
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Luca Tarigo was one of a dozen Navigatori-class destroyers built for the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) in the late 1920s.
Design and description, machinery
The Navigatoris were powered by two Parsons geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam supplied by four Odero-Terni-Orlando water-tube boilers.
Design and description, fuel
They carried enough fuel oil to give them a range of 3,800 nautical miles (7,000 km; 4,400 mi) at a speed of 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph).
Design and description, power
The turbines were designed to produce 55,000 shaft horsepower (41,000 kW) and a speed of 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) in service
Design and description, speed
The turbines were designed to produce 55,000 shaft horsepower (41,000 kW) and a speed of 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) in service
Design and description, displacement
They displaced 1,900 metric tons (1,900 long tons) at standard load, and 2,580 metric tons (2,540 long tons) at deep load.
Construction and career, loss
In the fighting and subsequent sinking, Commander De Cristofaro, 7 other officers died or disappeared
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Its tasks consisted mainly of escorting fast troop transport convoys on the Naples-Palermo-Tripoli route as well as laying mines.
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Luca Tarigo TA Ansaldo, Genoa 8.1927 9.12.1928 11.1929 sunk 16.4.1941
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Luca Tarigo TA Ansaldo, Genoa 8.1927 9.12.1928 11.1929 sunk 16.4.1941
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