For other ships with the same name, see Italian ship Saetta.
Saetta, date unknown
History
Kingdom of Italy
Name
Saetta
Builder
Regio Cantiere di Castellammare di Stabia
Launched
30 May 1887
Commissioned
16 February 1888
Stricken
14 May 1908
Fate
Broken up, 1908
General characteristics
Class and type
Folgore-class torpedo cruiser
Displacement
364 long tons (370 t)
Length
56.7 meters (186 ft)
Beam
6.31 m (20 ft 8 in)
Draft
2.15 m (7 ft 1 in)
Installed power
4 × locomotive boilers
2,130 indicated horsepower (1,590 kW)
Propulsion
2 × double-expansion steam engines
Speed
17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Complement
57–70
Armament
3 × 14 in (356 mm) torpedo tubes
2 × 57 mm (2.2 in) guns
4 × 37 mm (1.5 in) guns
Saetta was a Folgore-class torpedo cruiser built for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in the 1880s. Armed with three 14 in (356 mm) torpedo tubes and six light guns, she was capable of a top speed of 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph). She was built in the mid-1880s, was launched in May 1887, and was completed in February 1888. Saetta spent the first decade of her career serving in the main Italian fleet, where she conducted peacetime training exercises. In 1897, she was withdrawn from front-line service and employed as a gunnery training ship, a role she filled for another decade. The Regia Marina ultimately sold Saetta for scrap in May 1908.
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Airfield (located just over the Messina Strait on mainland Italy) 161st Fighter Squadron (C.200 Saetta, Dewoitine D.520, and C.202 Folgore fighters) 162nd,...
near-miss either from an 8 in (200 mm) shell, possibly fired by the Italiancruiser Gorizia or as stated by British official reports by 13 in (320 mm)...
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