Mirabello-class destroyer

The Mirabello class was a group of three flotilla leaders built for the Italian Regia Marina and completed in 1916 and 1917: Carlo Mirabello, Carlo Alberto Racchia and Augusto Riboty. They were commissioned as scouts, reclassified as light scouts in 1921 and as destroyers in 1938. Ansaldo designed them as a modest alternative to a larger, lightly armoured scout cruiser that the navy could not afford, and built all three at Genoa. Each displaced about 1,780 tonnes, was about 103 metres long, and was driven by two Parsons steam turbines and four Yarrow boilers rated at 44,000 horsepower for 35 knots, with eight 102 mm guns and two twin 450 mm torpedo tubes. Racchia was sunk by a mine off Odessa in 1920 and Mirabello by a mine in 1941, and Riboty was stricken in 1950.