Italian destroyer Strale (1900)

History

Kingdom of Italy
Name	Strale
Namesake	Javelin
Builder	Schichau-Werke, Elbing, Germany
Laid down	7 November 1899
Launched	19 May 1900
Completed	6 July 1901
Commissioned	July 1901
Decommissioned	1924
Stricken	January 1924
Fate	Discarded 13 January 1924 Scrapped
General characteristics
Type	Destroyer
Displacement	315 long tons (320 t) normal 348 long tons (354 t) full load
Length	60.00 m (196 ft 10 in) pp 62.05 m (203 ft 7 in) oa
Beam	6.50 m (21 ft 4 in)
Draught	2.60 m (8 ft 6 in)
Propulsion	2 × vertical triple-expansion steam engines 4× Thornycroft boilers 6,000 ihp (4,474 kW)
Speed	31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph)
Range	290 nmi (540 km; 330 mi) at 26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph) 2,000 nmi (3,700 km; 2,300 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	59
Armament	6 × 57 mm/43 2× 356 mm (14 in) torpedo tubes

Strale ("Javelin") was an Italian Lampo-class destroyer. Commissioned into service in the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in 1901, she served in the Italo-Turkish War and World War I. She was stricken in 1924.