Nembo Class Destroyer (1901)

Italy built six "Nembo" class destroyers in the early 1900s. Three of the six were lost in the Great War.

Overview of 6 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Completed	Fate
Nembo	Pattison Shipyard, Naples	6 Aug, 1899	18 May, 1901	26 Jun, 1902	Torpedoed 17 Oct, 1916
Turbine	Pattison Shipyard, Naples	20 Aug, 1899	21 Nov, 1901	28 Aug, 1902	Sunk 24 May, 1915
Aquilone	Pattison Shipyard, Naples	10 Sep, 1899	16 Nov, 1902	28 Aug, 1902	Discarded 4 Mar, 1923
Borea	Pattison Shipyard, Naples	2 Oct, 1899	12 Dec, 1902	6 Oct, 1903	Sunk 14 May, 1917
Zeffiro	Pattison Shipyard, Naples		14 May, 1904	1 Apr, 1905	Discarded 13 Mar, 1924
Espero	Pattison Shipyard, Naples		9 Jul, 1904	1 Apr, 1905	Discarded 5 Apr, 1923

Armament

Before 1906, Nembo and Turbine differed from the other ships in the class in that they replaced a pair of 14-in torpedo tubes to mount a 3-in gun.

• five 57-mm/43 guns
• four 14-in tubes

Nembo and Turbine before 1906:

• one 3-in/40 gun
• five 57-mm/43 guns
• four 14-in tubes

See Also

• Wikipedia