Italian destroyer Carlo Alberto Racchia

Carlo Alberto Racchia was one of three Mirabello-class scout cruisers built for the Italian Regia Marina during the First World War. Gio. Ansaldo & C. laid her down at Sestri Ponente on 10 December 1914, launched her on 2 June 1916 and commissioned her on 21 December 1916. She was 103.75 metres long and displaced 1,784 tonnes at standard load. Two Parsons geared steam turbines, supplied by four Yarrow boilers and rated at 44,000 shaft horsepower, drove her to 35.4 knots on trials. She fought in the Adriatic campaign and in the Battle of the Strait of Otranto in May 1917. After the war she was sent to Constantinople, and on 21 July 1920, escorting a convoy that carried Russian refugees to Odessa, she was shaken by the explosion of a mine off Cape Fontana and sank. The Regia Marina gave her name to a new ship in 1938.