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Pilo Class{{Infobox ship image| Ship image = | Ship caption = The italian torpedo boat Giuseppe Missori in 1920
}}{{Infobox ship class overview | Name = Pilo class | Builders =- Cantieri navali Odero, Sestri Ponente
- Cantiere Pattison, Naples
| Kingdom of Italy}} (1916–1943)- {{navy|Nazi Germany}} (1943–1944)
| Class before = | Class after = Generali class destroyer | Subclasses = | Cost = | Built range =1913 - 1916 | In service range =1915 - 1958 | In commission range = | Total ships building = | Total ships planned = | Total ships completed = 8 | Total ships cancelled = | Total ships active = | Total ships laid up = | Total ships lost = 4 | Total ships retired = 4 | Total ships preserved =
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Ship class = Pilo class torpedo boat | Ship displacement =*912 tons (max) | 73|m|abbr=on}} | 7.3|m|abbr=on}} | 2.3|m|abbr=on}} | 16000|bhp|lk=in}} | Ship propulsion =*1 × Tosi steam turbines | 30|kn|lk=in}} | 1200|nmi|lk=in|abbr=on}} at {{convert|14|kn}} | Ship complement = 69-79 | Ship crew = | Ship sensors = | Ship EW = | Ship armament =*1915–1918:- 4 × 1 76mm/40 autocannon
- 2 × 1 76mm/40 AA
- 4 × 1 450 torpedo tubes
- 10 mines
- 1919–1921:
- 6 × 1 76mm/40 autocannon
- 5 × 1 {{Convert|102|mm|in|abbr=on}}/35 guns
- 2 × 1 - 40 mm/39 pom-pom AA
| Ship armour = | Ship notes =
}} | The Rosolino Pilo{{#tag:ref|Also known as the Pilo class|group=lower-alpha}} class was a class of eight destroyers of the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) constructed before and during the First World War. Like other obsolete Italian destroyers, they were reclassified as torpedo boats in 1929, and seven ships served throughout the Second World War. Two ships were sunk by mines while under Italian service during the Second World War, with two more being seized by Nazi Germany following the Italian Armistice in 1943. The remaining three ships survived the war and continued in use with the post-war Italian Navy, with the last two of the class being decommissioned in 1958. German capture Following Italy's surrender on 8 September 1943, Germany captured two of the Pilo-class vessels. Giuseppe Missori was renamed TA22, and Giuseppe Dezza was renamed TA35. These vessels were re-designated as torpedo boats and put into service with the Kriegsmarine. TA22 was attacked by the all-African American fighter group, the Tuskegee Airmen, who put her out of action. TA35 was sunk on 17 August 1944. Operators - {{flag|Kingdom of Italy}}
- {{flag|Nazi Germany|Nazi}}
Ships| Name | Pennant[1] | Builder[1] | Laid down[1] | Launched[1] | Completed[1] | Fate |
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| {{ship|Italian destroyer|Rosolino Pilo | 2} | PN | Odero, Sestri Ponente | 19 August 1913 | 24 March 1915 | 25 May 1915 | Stricken October 1954 | | {{ship|Italian destroyer|Giuseppe Cesare Abba | 2} | AB | Odero, Sestri Ponente | 19 August 1913 | 25 May 1915 | 6 July 1915 | Stricken September 1958 | | {{ship|Italian destroyer|Pilade Bronzetti | 2} | BR | Odero, Sestri Ponente | 12 September 1913 | 26 October 1915 | 1 January 1916 | Renamed Giuseppe Dezza 16 January 1921.
Scuttled 16 September 1943, but refloated by German Navy asTA35, re-commissioning 9 June 1944.
Sunk by mine 17 August 1944 but again refloated. Scuttled 3 May 1945.[1][2] | | {{ship|Italian destroyer|Giuseppe Missori | 2} | MS | Odero, Sestri Ponente | 19 January 1914 | 20 December 1915 | 7 March 1916 | Captured by Germany 10 September 1943, renamed TA22. Scuttled 3 May 1945.[1] | | {{ship|Italian destroyer|Antonio Mosto | 2} | MO, MT | Pattison, Naples | 9 October 1913 | 20 May 1915 | 7 July 1915 | Minesweeper 1953.
Stricken 15 December 1958.[1] | | {{ship|Italian destroyer|Ippolito Nievo | 2} | NV | Odero, Sestri Ponente | 19 August 1913 | 24 July 1915 | 1 October 1915 | Stricken 24 April 1938.[1] | | {{ship|Italian destroyer|Francesco Nullo|1914|2}} | | Pattison, Naples | 24 September 1913 | 12 November 1914 | 1 May 1915 | Renamed Fratelli Cairoli 16 January 1921.
Sunk by mine off Libya 23 September 1940.[1] | | {{ship|Italian destroyer|Simone Schiaffino | 2} | SF, SH | Odero, Sestri Ponente | 12 September 1913 | 11 September 1915 | 7 November 1915 | She seized the Greek steamer Athinai off Messina on 20 October 1940[3][4] Sunk by an Italian mine off Cap Bon 24 April 1941.[1] |
Notes 1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Fraccaroli 1970, p. 72.
2. ^Gardiner and Gray 1985, p. 269.
3. ^{{Cite web|title = Con la pelle appesa a un chiodo: Simone Schiaffino|url = http://conlapelleappesaaunchiodo.blogspot.com.ar/2015/06/simone-schiaffino_26.html|website = Con la pelle appesa a un chiodo|accessdate = 2015-12-21|first = Lorenzo|last = Colombo}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url = http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?161098|title = SS Athinai|date = |accessdate = 20 December 2015|website = |publisher = Wrecksite|last = |first = }}
{{Reflist|30em}} References - {{cite book|last=Fraccaroli|first=Aldo|title=Italian Warships of World War 1|year=1970|publisher=Ian Allan|location=London|isbn=0-7110-0105-7}}
- {{cite book|editor1-last=Gardiner|editor1-first=Robert|editor2-last=Chesneau|editor2-first=Roger|title=Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946|year=1980|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=London|isbn=0-85177-146-7}}
- {{cite book|editor1-last=Gardiner|editor1-first=Robert|editor2-last=Gray|editor2-first=Randal|title=Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921|year=1985|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=London|isbn=0-85177-245-5}}
- {{cite book|last=Whitley|first=M.J.|title=Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia|year=2000|publisher=Cassell & Co|location=London|isbn=1-85409-521-8}}
External links - {{cite web|url=http://www.navypedia.org/ships/italy/it_dd_pilo.htm|title=Rosolino Pilo destroyers (1915 - 1916) - Regia Marina / Italian Navy (Italy)|publisher=navypedia.org|accessdate=2015-07-05}}
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