Ciclone class torpedo boat

Class overview
Operators:	Regia Marina  Kriegsmarine  Yugoslav Navy  Soviet Navy
Built:	1942–1943
In commission:	1942–1949
Completed:	16
Lost:	11
General characteristics [1]
Type:	Torpedo boat
Displacement:	910 long tons (920 t) standard 1,625 long tons (1,651 t) full load
Length:	82.5 m (270 ft 8 in)
Beam:	9.9 m (32 ft 6 in)
Draught:	3.77 m (12 ft 4 in)
Propulsion:	2 shaft steam turbines 2 Yarrow type boilers 16,000 hp (11,900 kW)
Speed:	26 knots (30 mph; 48 km/h)
Complement:	154
Armament:	• 2 × 100 mm (3.9 in) guns (3 guns in some ships after refit) • 8 × 20 mm (0.79 in) anti-aircraft guns • 8 × 13.2 mm (0.52 in) AA machine guns • 4 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes • 4 × depth charge throwers

The Ciclone class were a group of torpedo boats or destroyer escorts built for the Italian Navy which fought in the Second World War. They were slightly enlarged versions of the previous Orsa class, they had improved stability and heavier anti-submarine armament. These ships were built as part of the Italian war mobilisation programme and completed in 1942-43.

Ships

Ship	Builder	Launched	Operational History
Aliseo	Navalmeccanica	20 September 1942	War reparation to the Yugoslav Navy, 1949 as the Triglav
Animoso	Ansaldo, Genoa	15 April 1942	Reparation to the USSR, 1949 as destroyer Ladny (Ладный), BU 1958
Ardente	Ansaldo, Genoa	27 May 1942	Sank submarine HMS P48 on 25 December 1942. Sunk in collision with the destroyer Grecale 12 January 1943
Ardimentoso	Ansaldo, Genoa	27 June 1942	Reparation to the USSR, 1949 as destroyer Liuty (Лютый), BU 1960
Ardito	Ansaldo, Genoa	16 March 1942	Captured by the Germans in September 1943, served as TA25. Either sunk 15 June 1944 by US Navy PT boats or destroyed by sabotage at Rapallo on 6 July 1944[2]
Ciclone	CRDA, Trieste	1 March 1942	She took part in the shooting down of three Beaufort bombers and a Beaufighter while escorting a convoy to Libya between 20-21 August 1942.[3] Fought off several British motor launches and amphibious crafts during the botched Allied landing on Tobruk, on 14 September 1942. Sunk by mines 8 March 1943
Fortunale	CRDA, Trieste	18 April 1942	Sank submarine HMS P222 on 12 December 1942. Reparation to the USSR, 1949 as destroyer Liotny (Лётный), sunk as target ship 1959
Ghibli	Navalmeccanica	28 February 1943	Seized by the Germans in September 1943, but not repaired. Scuttled in La Spezia 25 April 1945
Groppo	Navalmeccanica	19 April 1943	Sank submarine HMS Utmost on 25 November 1942. Sunk 25 May 1943, by bombing
Impavido	CT Riva Trigoso	24 February 1943	Captured by the Germans in September 1943, served as TA23. Struck a mine on 25 April 1944 and finished off by British MTBs while taken in tow[4]
Impetouso	CT Riva Trigoso	20 April 1943	Scuttled 11 September 1943
Indomito	CT Riva Trigoso	6 July 1943	War reparation to the Yugoslav Navy, 1949 as the Biokovo
Intrepido	CT Riva Trigoso	8 September 1943	Captured by the Germans in September 1943, served as TA26. Sunk by US PT boats 15 July 1944[5]
Monsone	Navalmeccanica	7 June 1942	Sunk 1 March 1943 at Naples by Allied bombing[6]
Tifone	CRDA Trieste	31 March 1943	Scuttled in Tunis, 7 May 1943
Uragano	CRDA Trieste	3 May 1942	Sunk by mines 3 February 1943

References

1. ^ Conway's All the World's Fighting ships 1922-1946
2. ^ TA 25
3. ^ Shores, Cull & Malizia (1991).Malta: The Spitfire Year 1942. Grub Street, pp. 522-524. ISBN 094881716-X
4. ^ TA 23
5. ^ TA 26
6. ^ Torpediniera Monsone From trentoincina.it (Italian)