History | |
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Kingdom of Italy | |
Name | Antonio Mosto |
Namesake | Antonio Mosto (1824–1880), Italian soldier and patriot |
Builder | Cantiere Pattison, Naples, Kingdom of Italy |
Laid down | 9 October 1913 |
Launched | 20 May 1915 |
Commissioned | 7 July 1915 |
Identification | Pennant number MO, MT |
Motto | A qualunque costo avanti ("Go Ahead at Any Cost") |
Fate | To Italian Republic 1946 |
Italian Republic | |
Reclassified | Minesweeper 1953 |
Stricken | 15 December 1958 |
Identification | Pennant number M 5335 (1953) |
Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Rosolino Pilo-class destroyer |
Displacement |
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Length | 73 m (240 ft) |
Beam | 7.3 m (24 ft) |
Draught | 2.3 m (7 ft 7 in) |
Installed power | 16,000 brake horsepower (11,931 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
Range | 1,200 nmi (2,200 km; 1,400 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
Complement | 69-79 |
Armament |
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Antonio Mosto was an Italian Rosolino Pilo-class destroyers. Commissioned into service in the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in 1915, she served in World War I, playing an active role in the Adriatic campaign and seeing action in the Battle of the Strait of Otranto in 1917. Reclassified as a torpedo boat in 1929, she participated in the Mediterranean and Adriatic campaigns of World War II. In 1943, she switched to the Allied side, operating as part of the Italian Co-belligerent Navy for the remainder of the war. She served in the postwar Italian Navy (Marina Miltare) and was reclassified as a minesweeper in 1953. She was stricken in 1958.
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