Freccia-class destroyer

Freccia class

Italian destroyer Freccia
Class overview
Name:	Freccia class
Operators:	Regia Marina Royal Hellenic Navy
Preceded by:	Navigatori class
Succeeded by:	Folgore class
Subclasses:	Kondouriotis class
Built:	1929–33
In commission:	1931–46
Completed:	8
Lost:	6
Scrapped:	2
General characteristics
Type:	Destroyer
Displacement:	1,205 long tons (1,224 t) standard 2,116 long tons (2,150 t) full load
Length:	96.15 m (315 ft 5 in)
Beam:	9.75 m (32 ft 0 in)
Draught:	3.15 m (10 ft 4 in)
Installed power:	33,000 kW (44,000 shp) 3 boilers
Propulsion:	2 shafts, Parsons type geared steam turbines
Speed:	38 knots (70 km/h; 44 mph)
Range:	4,600 nmi (8,500 km; 5,300 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement:	185
Armament:	2 × 2 - 120 mm (4.7 in) guns 2 × 40 mm "pom-pom" AA guns 4 × 13.2 mm machine guns 6 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes 54 mines

The Freccia-class destroyer was a class of destroyers built for the Regia Marina, the Italian Royal Navy, in the 1930s. It was basically an enlarged version of the earlier Turbine-class destroyers. Four modified ships were built and delivered in 1933 for Greece.

The Greek Navy ordered four destroyers from Italy in 1929 to a modified design as the Kondouriotis class. The chief difference with the Italian ships was the substitution of four single 120 mm guns (Ansaldo Model 1926) for the twin turrets used in the Italian Navy ships.

The two surviving ships, Spetsai and Kondouriotis, served in the Eastern Mediterranean as part of the Free Greek Navy until late 1943. They were then laid up at Port Said, Egypt for want of Italian spare parts, and because their crews were needed for new ships built in the UK for the Free Greek Navy.