Italian destroyer Francesco Crispi
Francesco Crispi was one of four s built for the Regia Marina in the 1920s. Completed in 1927, she served in World War II.
Design and description
The Sella-class destroyers were enlarged and improved versions of the preceding and es. They had an overall length of, a beam of and a mean draft of. They displaced at standard load, and at deep load. Their complement was 8–9 officers and 144 enlisted men.Unlike the Parsons geared steam turbines used by her sister ships, Francesco Crispi used a pair of Belluzzo turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam supplied by three Thornycroft boilers. The turbines were rated at for a speed of in service, although the ship reached a speed of from during her sea trials while lightly loaded. The Sellas carried enough fuel oil to give them a range of at a speed of.
Their main battery consisted of four [120 mm Italian naval gun|] guns in one twin-gun turret aft of the superstructure and one single-gun turret forward of it. Anti-aircraft (AA) defense for the Sella-class ships was provided by a pair of [QF 2 pounder naval gun|] AA guns in single mounts amidships and a pair of machine guns. They were equipped with four torpedo tubes in two twin mounts amidships. The Sellas could also carry 32 mines.