Italian Navy / Marina Militare Italiana

Albatros class Corvette

 

 

 

Ships:

unit

in service

builder

status

F 543 ITS Albatros

1955

Navalmeccanica, Castellammare die Stabia, Italy

decommissioned 1991

F 544 ITS Alcione

1955

Navalmeccanica, Castellammare die Stabia, Italy

decommissioned 1991

F 545 ITS Airone

1955

Navalmeccanica, Castellammare die Stabia, Italy

decommissioned 1991

F 542 ITS Aquila

1956/61

Cantieri Navale Breda di Marghera, Venice, Italy

decommissioned 1985

 

 

Specifications:

 

Length:

76,3 meters

 

Beam:

9,6 meters

 

Draft:

2,8 meters

 

Displacement:

800 tons (standard) / 950 tons (full load)

 

Speed:

20 knots (37 km/h) maximal

 

Range:

8400 NM (15500 km)

 

Crew:

117

 

Aviation:

none

 

Propulsion:

4 x FIAT M409 diesel engines
5200 bhp
2 shafts / 2 propellers

 

Armament:

2 x Oto-Melara SMP3 Sovrapposto 76mm/62-caliber guns (replaced in 1962/63 by 2x 40mm/L70 guns)

2 x Bofors 40mm/L70 twin AA guns

2 x 12,75” (324mm) triple torpedo tubes (added later)

4 x ASW mortars (removed later)

2 x “Hedgehog” anti-submarine projectors

1 x depth charge rack

 

Systems:

MLN-1A air/surface search radar

QCU-2 hight-frequency sonar

 

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