Italian cruiser Alessandro Poerio
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Alessandro Poerio was an Italian scout cruiser, the lead ship of the Alessandro Poerio class. Commissioned into service in the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in 1915, she served during World War I, participating in the Adriatic campaign, initially operating in the upper Adriatic Sea and later in the southern Adriatic.[4] She took part in 66 operations during the war, often supporting raids by Italian motor torpedo boats.[4] She was reclassified as a destroyer in 1921 due to her light displacement. Like her sister ships, Cesare Rossarol and Guglielmo Pepe, she was named after a famous Neapolitan light cavalryman who helped defend Venice from attacks by the Imperial Austrian Army during the revolutions in 1848.[1][5]
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Kingdom of Italy | |
Name | Alessandro Poerio |
Namesake | Alessandro Poerio (1802–1848), Italian patriot and poet |
Operator | Regia Marina (Royal Navy) |
Builder | Gio. Ansaldo & C., Sestri Ponente, Kingdom of Italy |
Laid down | 25 June 1913 |
Launched | 4 August 1914 |
Commissioned | 25 May 1915 |
Reclassified | Destroyer 1921 |
Fate | Sold to Spanish Nationalist Navy October 1937 |
Stricken | 5 January 1939 |
Spain | |
Name | Huesca |
Namesake | Huesca, a city in northeastern Spain |
Operator |
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Acquired | October 1937 |
Stricken | 17 August 1953 |
Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics (as Alessandro Poerio) | |
Class and type | Alessandro Poerio-class destroyer |
Displacement | |
Length | 85 m (278 ft 10 in)[2] |
Beam | 8 m (26 ft 3 in) |
Draft | 3.11 metres (10 ft 2 in)[3] |
Propulsion | 2 Belluzzo steam turbines, 24,000 hp (17,897 kW), 3 Yarrow three-drum water-tube boilers, 2 shafts[1] |
Speed | 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)[1] |
Range | 2,400 nmi (4,400 km; 2,800 mi) at 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
Crew | 109[1] |
Armament |
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General characteristics (as Huesca) | |
Class and type | Alessandro Poerio-class destroyer |
Displacement | |
Length | 86 m (282 ft 2 in)[3] |
Beam | 8 m (26 ft 3 in) |
Draft | 2.8 metres (9 ft 2 in)[3] |
Propulsion | 2 Belluzzo steam turbines, 24,000 hp (17,897 kW), 5 Yarrow boilers, 2 shafts[3] |
Speed | 31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph)[3] |
Crew | 130[3] |
Armament |
In 1937, Fascist Italy sold the ship to the Nationalist faction in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Renamed Huesca, the ship subsequently served in the Spanish Navy until she was stricken in 1953.