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Albatros (Italian torpedo boat)

History
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Name: Albatros
Owner: Regia Marina
Builder: Cantieri Navali del Tirreno e Riuniti
Laid down: November 1931
Launched: 27 May 1934
Commissioned: November 1934
Fate: Sunk 27 September 1941
General characteristics
Length: 70.5 m
Beam: 6.90 m
Draught: 1.71 m
Installed power: 4000 s.h.p.
Propulsion: 2 twin screw steam propulsion engines
Speed: 24.5 knots
Endurance: 1420 nautical miles at 14 knots
Complement: 187

Albatros was a torpedo boat of the Regia Marina which served in World War II. She fought in the Mediterranean Sea and was sunk by HMS Upright in 1941. Albatros was the first project to create a specialised antisubmarine vessel. In 1939 became the first Italian ship with a sonar (ecogoniometro in Italian).

After being fired upon by the British submarine Phoenix on 16 July 1940,Albatros counter-attacked with depth charges and destroyed her. She was torpedoed and sunk by the British U-class submarine Upright on 27 September 1941.


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