Italian cruiser Guglielmo Pepe
Italian ''Alessandro Poerio''-class scout cruiser / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guglielmo Pepe was an Italian Alessandro Poerio-class scout cruiser. Commissioned into service in the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in 1915, she served during World War I, participating in the Adriatic campaign, often supporting raids by Italian motor torpedo boats.[5] She was reclassified as a destroyer in 1921 due to her light displacement. Like her sister ships, Alessandro Poerio and Cesare Rossarol, 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.[2][6]
Teruel (ex-Guglielmo Pepe) | |
History | |
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Kingdom of Italy | |
Name | Guglielmo Pepe |
Namesake | Guglielmo Pepe (1783–1855), Italian general, patriot, and historian |
Operator | Regia Marina (Royal Navy) |
Builder | Gio. Ansaldo & C., Sestri Ponente, Kingdom of Italy |
Laid down | 2 July 1913 |
Launched | 17 September 1914 |
Commissioned | 20 August 1915 |
Reclassified | Destroyer 1921 |
Fate | Sold to Spanish Nationalist Navy October 1937 |
Stricken | 5 January 1939 |
Motto | Nullum opus arduum ("No Hard Work")[1] |
Spain | |
Name | Teruel |
Namesake | Teruel, a city in eastern Spain |
Operator |
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Acquired | October 1937 |
Stricken | 17 August 1948 |
Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics (as Gulgielmo Pepe) | |
Class and type | Alessandro Poerio-class destroyer |
Displacement | |
Length | 85 m (278 ft 10 in)[3] |
Beam | 8 m (26 ft 3 in) |
Draft | 3.11 metres (10 ft 2 in)[4] |
Propulsion | 2 Belluzzo steam turbines, 24,000 hp (17,897 kW), 3 Yarrow three-drum water-tube boilers, 2 shafts[2] |
Speed | 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)[2] |
Range | 2,400 nmi (4,400 km; 2,800 mi) at 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
Crew | 109[2] |
Armament |
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General characteristics (as Teruel) | |
Class and type | Alessandro Poerio-class destroyer |
Displacement | |
Length | 86 m (282 ft 2 in)[4] |
Beam | 8 m (26 ft 3 in) |
Draft | 2.8 metres (9 ft 2 in)[4] |
Propulsion | 2 Belluzzo steam turbines, 24,000 hp (17,897 kW), 5 Yarrow boilers, 2 shafts[4] |
Speed | 31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph)[4] |
Crew | 130[4] |
Armament |
In 1937, Fascist Italy sold the ship to the Nationalist faction in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Renamed Teruel, the ship subsequently served in the Spanish Navy until she was stricken in 1948.