Italian destroyer Francesco Stocco

Francesco Stocco was the third of four s built for the Italian Regia Marina in the 1910s.

Design

The ships of the Giuseppe Sirtori class were long at the waterline and long overall, with a beam of and a mean draft of. They displaced standard and up to at full load. They had a crew of 98 officers and enlisted men. The ships were powered by two steam turbines, with steam provided by four Thornycroft water-tube boilers. The engines were rated to produce for a top speed of, though in service they reached as high as from around. At a more economical speed of, the ships could cruise for.
Franco Stocco was armed with a main battery of six guns. Her light armament consisted of a pair of [QF 2 pounder naval gun|] anti-aircraft guns and two machine guns. She was also equipped with four torpedo tubes in two twin launchers, one on each side of the ship. The ship also carried ten naval mines.

Francesco Stocco was built at the Cantieri navali Odero shipyard in Sestri Ponente, and was launched on 5 June 1917.
After the Italian surrender to the Allies on 3 September 1943, German forces launched a major attack against their erstwhile ally. Francesco Stocco was attacked and sunk by German bombers on 24 September while cruising off Corfu.