Italian destroyer Carabiniere (1909)

History

Italy
Name	Carabiniere
Namesake	Carabinier, a soldier armed with a carbine
Builder	Gio. Ansaldo & C., Genoa, Kingdom of Italy
Laid down	7 November 1905
Launched	12 October 1909
Completed	26 January 1910
Commissioned	1910
Reclassified	Torpedo boat 1 July 1921
Stricken	7 May 1925
Fate	Discarded 7 May 1925 Scrapped
Motto	1910–1914: Usi obbedir tacendo e tacendo morir ("It is customary to obey in silence and to die in silence") From 1914: Nei secoli fedele ("Forever faithful")
General characteristics
Class & type	Soldato-class destroyer
Displacement	395–415 long tons (401–422 t)
Length	65 m (213 ft 3 in) wl 65.0 m (213 ft 3 in) oa
Beam	6.1 m (20 ft 0 in)
Draught	2.1 m (6 ft 11 in)
Propulsion	2 × Vertical triple-expansion steam engines 3× Thornycroft water-tube boilers 6,000 ihp (4,474 kW) 65 t (72 tons) fuel oil
Speed	28.5 knots (52.8 km/h; 32.8 mph)
Range	1,600 nmi (3,000 km; 1,800 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	50
Armament	4 × 76 mm (3 in)/40 guns 3 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes

Carabinere ("Carabinier") was a Soldato-class ("Soldier"-class) destroyer of the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy). Commissioned in 1910, she served in the Italo-Turkish War and World War I. Reclassified as a torpedo boat in 1921, she was stricken in 1925.