Italian destroyer Ascaro

Chinese Empire

Name	Tsing Po (or Ching Po)
Ordered	1910
Builder	Gio. Ansaldo & C., Genoa, Kingdom of Italy
Laid down	1911
Fate	Sold to Kingdom of Italy 1912
Italy
Name	Ascaro
Namesake	Ascaro, the Italian singular for an askari, an African colonial soldier
Acquired	1912
Launched	6 December 1912
Completed	21 July 1913
Commissioned	July 1913
Reclassified	Torpedo boat 1 July 1921
Identification	Pennant number AS, AO
Stricken	31 May 1930
Fate	Scrapped
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) One coal-fired boiler, two oil-fired boilers
Speed	28.5 knots (52.8 km/h; 32.8 mph)
Range	1,500 nmi (2,800 km; 1,700 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	55
Armament	As ordered: 2 × 76 mm (3 in)/40 guns 4 x 47 mm (1.9) guns 3 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes As completed: 4 × 76 mm (3 in)/40 guns 3 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes

Ascaro ("Askari") was a Soldato-class ("Soldier"-class) destroyer of the Italian Regia Marina ("Royal Navy"). Commissioned in 1913, she served during World War I. Reclassified as a torpedo boat in 1921, she was stricken in 1930.