Italian destroyer Granatiere (1906)
 Granatiere off Monaco on 4 April 1910.
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| Name | Granatiere |
| Namesake | Grenadier, a soldier who specializes in fighting in the vanguard of assaults |
| Builder | Gio. Ansaldo & C., Genoa, Kingdom of Italy |
| Laid down | 24 July 1905 |
| Launched | 27 October 1906 |
| Completed | 18 April 1907 |
| Commissioned | 5 June 1907 |
| Stricken | 3 November 1927 |
| Identification | Pennant number GR |
| Fate | Scrapped |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Displacement | 395–424 long tons (401–431 t) |
| Length | |
| Beam | 6.1 m (20 ft 0 in) |
| Draught | 2.1 m (6 ft 11 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 28.5 knots (52.8 km/h; 32.8 mph) |
| Complement | 55 |
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Granatiere ("Grenadier") was a Soldato-class ("Soldier"-class) destroyer of the Italian Regia Marina ("Royal Navy"). Commissioned in 1907, she served in the Italo-Turkish War and World War I. She was stricken in 1927.
Design
Granatiere was powered by two sets of
Construction and commissioning
Granatiere was
Service history
1907–1911
Assigned to the 3rd Destroyer Squadron in the Department of the Upper Tyrrhenian Sea, Granatiere spent an initial training period in the waters of La Spezia.[4] On 13 May 1908, she steamed up the Tiber to Rome to receive a battle flag presented to her by the Italian Royal Army's Brigade "Granatieri di Sardegna" at the Port of Ripa Grande in the presence of King Victor Emmanuel III.[4]
A devastating earthquake in the Strait of Messina and subsequent tsunami struck Messina, Sicily, and Reggio Calabria on the Italian mainland on 28 December 1908. On 1 January 1909 Granatiere and the auxiliary ship Volta arrived at Messina to assist in rescue operations.[4][5][unreliable source?][6][unreliable source?] In 1909 she operated in the Middle East to defend Italians from anti-Christian violence.[4]
In 1910, Granatiere visited Monaco to attend the dedication of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco. During 1910 she also escorted the Italian royal yacht Trinacria to Sicily and Sardinia.[4]
Italo-Turkish War
The
World War I
1915
By late October 1918, Austria-Hungary had effectively disintegrated, and the Armistice of Villa Giusti, signed on 3 November 1918, went into effect on 4 November 1918 and brought hostilities between Austria-Hungary and the Allies to an end. World War I ended a week later with an armistice between the Allies and the German Empire on 11 November 1918.
Post-World War I
After World War I, Granatiere was reclassified as a torpedo boat on 1 July 1921.
Granatiere was stricken from the
She subsequently was scrapped.
References
Citations
- ^ a b c Fraccaroli 1985, p. 268.
- ^ Fraccaroli 1970, p. 67.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Copia archiviata" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 February 2011. (in Italian).
- ^ Betasom forum
- ^ Betasom forum.
- ^ Beehler 1913, p. 10.
- ^ Favre, p. 96..
- ^ Sport7 Diving Club - I nostri Relitti Archived 16 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian).
- ^ "Ships hit during WWI: Citta Di Sassari". uboat.net. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
- ^ Navi da guerra | RN Granatiere 1906 cacciatorpediniere classe Soldato in navigazione 1914 (in Italian).
- ^ Fraccaroli 1985, p. 286.
Bibliography
- Beehler, W. H. (1913). The History of the Italian-Turkish War, September 29, 1911 to October 18, 1912 (PDF). Annapolis, Maryland: William H. Beehler. (reprinted from Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute with additions)
- Favre, Franco. La Marina nella Grande Guerra. Le operazioni navali, aeree, subacquee e terrestri in Adriatico (in Italian).
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Fraccaroli, Aldo (1970). Italian Warships of World War I. Ian Allan. p. 67. ISBN 0711001057.
- Fraccaroli, Aldo (1985). "Italy". In Gray, Randal (ed.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. pp. 252–290. ISBN 978-0-87021-907-8.
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