D-558 Impetuoso

Country:  Italy

Class, [Type]: Impetuoso, [DD].

Builder: Riva Trigoso, Italy.

Launch date: 16 September 1956.

Commission date: 26 January 1958.

Decommission date: 1983.

Displacement ( tons ): 2.775 standard, 3.810 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 127,6 x 13,2 x 4,5

Main machinery: 4 x Foster-Wheeler boilers, 2 x turbines ( 65.000 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 34.

Range ( miles ): 3.500 at 16 knots.

Complement: 315.

Guns: 2 x 127mm/38 ( twin ) Mk38, 2 x 40mm/60 ( quad ), 4 x 40mm/60 ( twin ).

Torpedoes: 2 x 533mm tubes ( fixed ), which were removed later in favour of 6 x 324mm tubes ( 2 x triple launchers ) and Mk.44 torpedoes.

A/S Mortars: 1 x Menon 305mm.

Radar: Air Search: 1 x SPS-6; Surface: 1 x SPS-6G; Fire Control: 1 x SPG-25, 1 x SPG-34.

Sonar: SQS-11, later replaced by a SQS-4.