Italian destroyer Pontiere

Pontiere was a Soldato-class destroyer of the Italian Regia Marina, named for the bridgeman. The Gio. Ansaldo & C. shipyard in Genoa laid her down on 18 November 1905, launched her on 3 January 1910 and completed her on 11 February 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 65 tonnes of fuel oil gave a range of 1,600 nautical miles at 12 knots. She ran aground on a rock off Sardinia on 14 September 1911, was repaired at Taranto and relaunched on 1 November 1913, so she missed the whole Italo-Turkish War. In the First World War she led the 4th Destroyer Squadron at Brindisi and escorted the convoy in which the troopship Principe Umberto was torpedoed in 1916. She was reclassified as a torpedo boat in 1921 and stricken in 1929.