Los destructores clase Folgore Clase Dardo Serie Dos

[[adcontent:]] ## Los Folgore en la segunda Guerra Mundial

[[adcontent:]] ### Dardo primera serie

Puestos en grada casi un año después del inicio de la construcción de los Dardos fueron una modificación del diseño de estos; se les dio una manga de 50cm menos que la del Dardo y se instaló diferente maquinaria. Esto provocó un menor espacio de carga dentro del casco, lo que redujo la capacidad de combustible, la autonomía y la capacidad de embarcar armamento.

Proa del Folgore
Diseño en 3D de Hugo von Zeschau

         Tuvieron peores problemas de estabilidad y tenida al mar, más graves aún que los del Dardo. Por ello recibieron continuamente modificaciones debidas a los perennes problemas de estabilidad y de tenida al mar que no cesaban.          

[[adcontent:]] ### Los Folgore al servicio de la Regia Marina 

            Durante la guerra fue extremadamente difícil armarlos adecuadamente; aún así fueron extensivamente utilizados en tareas de escolta y todos  se perdieron en acción con naves británicas durante las hostilidades.

Proa del Folgore desde babor 
Diseño en 3D de Hugo von Zeschau

            El  Baleno fue hundido en Abril de 1941; Durante la batalla del convoy Duisburg se perdieron el Folgore y el Fulmine en combates de superficie; el Lampo se perdió bajo ataque aéreo cerca de la costa tunecina en Abril de 1943. 

[[adcontent:]] ### Technical data

Desplazamiento: Standard: 1540 t - Full Load: 2100 t
Length: 96.23 m - Width: 9,28 m
Crew: 156 men
Machinery: 2 Parsons geared turbines - HP: 44.000 - 3 Boilers - Max speed: 38 knots - Range: 3600 nautical miles at 12 knots
Armament: 4 x 120mm/L50 guns - 2 x 40mm AA guns - 4 x 13.2mm AA MGs - 6 x 21" torpedo tubes - 54 mines

Dardo
Diseño en 3D de Hugo von Zeschau

Dardo
Diseño en 3D de Hugo von Zeschau

[[adcontent:]] ### Names of the class ships and hull codes

[[adcontent:]] ### References
Wikipedia Cacciatorpediniere Classe Navigatori
La storia della REGIA MARINA ITALIANA nella seconda guerra mondiale di Andrea Piccinotti
Storie di Navi A.N.M.I.ASSOCIAZIONE NAZIONALE MARINAI D'ITALIA
Destroyers, frigates and corvetts. By Robert Jackson
Warships of World War II Collins - Jane´s - Bernard Ireland

[[adcontent:]] ## The Folgore in the second World War

[[adcontent:]] ### Dardo 1st serie

The Folgore class was basicaly a modification of the Dardo design; they had less beam (50cm less) than the Dardo class and also carried different machinery. They had less internal storage space, and this reduced the weapons, the range and equipment that carried the Folgore. The units were laid down one year after the Dardo Prima Serie.

They had heavy problems in stability and seaworthy, worst than in the Dardo. They were modified in the years, due to the problems in all the vessels with stability and seaworthy (confirmed tragically with the capsized of the Dardo).

Due for the not solved stability problem, they all had allways problem to improve weapons deficiences because the increment in topweight and they operated with reduced dotations of antiarcraft and ASW weapons.

They fought in the World War Two and were intensively employed before and after the beginning of World War Two because of the continuous need for escorts.

All the vessels of the class were sunk in action with British ships. Baleno was sunk by gunfire on 17 April 1941; Folgore and Fulmine were destroyed by British gunfire in December 1942 during the battle of the convoy Duisburg; Lampo was lost by air attack in April 1943 near the coast of Tunisia.

Technical data

Displacement: Standard: 1540 t - Full Load: 2100 t
Length: 96.23 m - Width: 9,28 m
Crew: 156 men
Machinery: 2 Parsons geared turbines - HP: 44.000 - 3 Boilers - Max speed: 38 knots - Range: 3600 nautical miles at 12 knots
Armament: 4 x 120mm/L50 guns - 2 x 40mm AA guns - 4 x 13.2mm AA MGs - 6 x 21" torpedo tubes - 54 mines

Names of the class ships and hull codes

References:
Wikipedia Cacciatorpediniere Classe Navigatori
La storia della REGIA MARINA ITALIANA nella seconda guerra mondiale di Andrea Piccinotti
Storie di Navi A.N.M.I.ASSOCIAZIONE NAZIONALE MARINAI D'ITALIA
Destroyers, frigates and corvetts. By Robert Jackson
Warships of World War II Collins - Jane´s - Bernard Ireland