Orione-class torpedo boat
The Orione class was a class of four sea-going steam-powered torpedo boats of the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) built by the Odero shipyard of Sestri Ponente from 1905 to 1907. They served in the Italo-Turkish War and the First World War. Construction and design On 31 March 1905, four torpedo boats were laid down at the Italian shipbuilder Odero's Sestri Ponente, Genoa shipyard. They were long between perpendiculars and overall, with a beam of and a draught of . Two coal-fired Blechynden boilers fed steam to two sets of triple expansion steam engines rated at , giving a design speed of . Range was at and at . Displacement was . They were fitted with a slightly unusual clipper bow (a bow that curves forward as it rises from the water) and two closely spaced funnels. Armament was the same as the and es, with three torpedo tubes and three 47 mm guns. Crew was three officers and 35 men. Service The four ships of the class were completed from February 1907 to April 1908. Although the ships reached speeds of up to during sea trials, they were less seaworthy than the ships of the Pegaso class. Olimpia and