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Thursday 17 August 2017

Romanian destroyers built at Naples, Italy according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1913-1914 no. 6

An item reported that the 4-1.500 tons destroyers under construction by Pattison, Naples, Italy for Romania were each to fitted out with 2 turbines of the Tosi-design placed in the Italian torpedo boats. Horsepower 40.000 ehp at 500rpm should allow a speed of 35 miles. Turbines for backwards moving delivered 13.000 ehp. The destroyers had as dimensions 07 x 9,5 x 3 metres and a displacement of 1.300 (trial)-1.450 (full loaded). Armament consisted of 3-12cm guns, 7-7,6cm guns and 2 torpedo launchers.