2-shaft diesel-electric, 7,800 hp diesel, 1,300 hp electric motors
Speed
20 knots (23 mph; 37 km/h)
Range
6,950 nmi (12,870 km)
Complement
234
Armament
4 × 120 mm (4.7 in) guns (2 × 2)
2 × Vickers-Terni 40 mm/39 pom pom (2 × 1)
4 × 13.2 mm (0.52 in) machine guns (4 × 1)
Armour
Deck: 25 to 32 mm (0.98 to 1.26 in)
Conning tower: 100 mm (4 in)
Eritrea was a colonial ship of the Italian Regia Marina constructed in the Castellammare Shipyards near Napoli. Construction started in 1935 and she was commissioned in 1937.[1] She served mainly in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans.[2]
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Oceans. The Eritrea (2,170 tons displacement) was constructed for duties as a typical "colonial ship" and was sometimes referred to as a "sloop". She had...
named after the explorer Francis Garnier: French sloop Francis Garnier, previously the ItaliansloopEritrea she was acquired in 1948 and expended in a nuclear...
harbour duties, and were called upon to accept the surrender of the ItaliansloopEritrea and escort her to the Colombo port with a prize crew on board. With...
September 1943, she intercepted and accepted the surrender of the ItaliansloopEritrea and escort her to the Colombo port with a prize crew on board. Following...
harbour duties, and were called upon to accept the surrender of the ItaliansloopEritrea and escort her to the Colombo port with a prize crew on board. As...
Algerine-class minesweeper launched in 1943. She was sold to the Italian Navy in 1947 and renamed Eritrea, and then Alabarda in 1951. She was broken up in 1981....
These guns were the main armament of Leone class destroyers and the sloopEritrea. These guns were the main armament of Sauro-class destroyers. A charge...
al-Andalusi in the mid 11th century. In the languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea, faranj or ferenj in most contexts still means distant foreigner (generally...
of Africa, bordered by Somalia to the south, Ethiopia to the southwest, Eritrea in the north, and the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to the east. The country...
rosso) was part of the Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy) based at Massawa in the colony of ItalianEritrea, part of Italian East Africa. During the Second World...
This is a list of Italian carracks, galleons and ships of the line of the period 1400-1858: Italy was formed in 1861 with the union of several states...
also /-sə/ -sə, Italian: [lampeˈduːza]; Sicilian: Lampidusa [lambɪˈɾuːsa]; Maltese: Lampeduża) is the largest island of the Italian Pelagie Islands in...
is a country in the Horn of Africa bordered by Somaliland to the east, Eritrea to west and the Red Sea to the north, Ethiopia to the west and south, and...
northern Somaliland to ItalianEritrea, in the Mussolini–Laval Accord of 7 January 1935. This treaty was never ratified by Italy and although preparations...
for German and Italian types. The ground is a hard surface which drops to sea level in steps, with the coast cut by ravines. The Italian fortifications...
control Yemen and modern-day Eritrea, and claims on Ethiopia as far as Harar. In 1884, the commander of the patrol sloop L’Inferent, a French ship, confirmed...
based in Italian East Africa. She remained there until May 1938, when she was relieved by the new sloopEritrea, allowing her to return to Italy. During...
HMS Ibis Royal Navy 10 November 1942 A Black Swan-class sloop that was sunk by an Italian aircraft north of Algiers. 37°0′N 3°0′E / 37.000°N 3.000°E...
Italian submarine Perla was a Perla-class submarine built for the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) during the 1930s. She was named after a gemstone Pearl...
Bab-el-Mandeb to isolate the Italian Red Sea Flotilla and protect Aden from sorties by Italian ships; the Italian naval bases in Eritrea were to be attacked....
operations during the final stages of the war. The sloop HMIS Pathan sunk in June 1940 by the Italian Navy Submarine Galvani during the East African Campaign...
invade and occupy the Italian Dodecanese Islands, Allied & Italian fleets take heavy losses. 9 September Action off Bastia - Italian destroyers and coastal...
Warships in World War II. Retrieved 14 April 2018. "Heroes of the Italian Navy". Italian Navy UnOfficial Homepage. Archived from the original on 27 October...
as few as 16 guns, such as HMS Falcon, which the British classified as a sloop. Under the rating system of the Royal Navy, by the middle of the 18th century...
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