GABBIANO (F571)

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aukepalmhof
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GABBIANO (F571)

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Feb 14, 2010 8:33 pm

Built as a corvette by Cantieri Cerusa di Voltri, Genoa Italy for the Italian Navy.
14 January 1942 keel laid down.
23 June 1942 launched as the GABBIANO.
Displacement 728 tons standard, 740 tons full load. Dim. 64.4 x 8.7 x 2.5m. (draught)
Powered diesel electric by two diesel engines 3.500 bhp, and two electric engines for chasing; twin screws, speed 18.5 knots.
Bunker capacity 70 ton oil. Range by a speed of 10 knots, 3.,450 mile.
Armament 1 – 100mm, 7 – 20mm, torpedo tubes 2 – 450mm. 8 depth charge launchers.
Crew 112.
03 October 1942 commissioned.

She was one of a proposed class of 61 ships, only 28 were completed before the armistice; four others were found in rather good condition in Northern Italy in 1945, and were refitted and commissioned.
The class was designed to be built quickly and in large numbers, and were needed to escort the convoys to North Africa.
24 April 1943 she sank by depth charges the British submarine HMS SAHIP in a position 10 miles north of Cape Milazzo (c38 30N 15 15E), the SAHIP managed to surface, when the crew abandoned the submarine and scuttled her with the loss of 1 man. Her crew was taken prisoners of war.
08 September 1943 she was at Gaeta under separation and was able to elude the German attempt to subdue her, sailing to Palermo.
Thereafter escorted allied convoys in the Mediterranean up to war’s end

After the war mostly used in the Command Training Flotilla.
From 1957 carried out survey work.
01 November 1971 decommisioned and stricken January 1972, scrapped in 1973.

Italy 1980 200li sg1691, scott?
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D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen
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Re: GABBIANO (F571)

Post by D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen » Wed Jul 13, 2016 6:32 pm

Somaliland 2011, 1500 a. StG.?
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