Italian destroyer Lanzerotto Malocello

Lanzerotto Malocello was one of a dozen Navigatori-class destroyers built for the Regia Marina in the late 1920s, designed to counter the large French destroyers of the Jaguar and Guepard classes. Gio. Ansaldo & C. laid her down at its Genoa-Sestri Ponente shipyard on 30 August 1927, launched her on 14 March 1929 and commissioned her on 18 January 1930. The class was 107.3 metres long and displaced 1,900 tonnes at standard load. Two Parsons geared steam turbines, supplied by four Odero-Terni-Orlando water-tube boilers, were designed for 55,000 shaft horsepower and 32 knots, and her fuel oil gave a range of 3,800 nautical miles at 18 knots. In August 1936, in the Spanish Civil War, she was sent to Mallorca under Captain Carlo Margottini, where her arrival raised the morale of the Nationalist forces, and she supported operations around the Balearic Islands until October.