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{{Infobox ship image| Ship image= RM Pegaso at home.jpg | Ship caption=Torpedo boat Pegaso
}}{{Infobox ship class overview | Name= | Builders= | Kingdom of Italy}} | Class before= | Class after= | Subclasses= | Cost= | Built range= | In service range= | In commission range=1936–1964 | Total ships building= | Total ships planned= | Total ships completed=4 | Total ships cancelled= | Total ships active= | Total ships laid up= | Total ships lost=2 | Total ships retired= | Total ships preserved=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption=[1] | Ship type=Torpedo boat | 840|LT|t|lk=in}} standard- {{convert|1575|LT|t|abbr=on}} full load
| 82.5|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | 9.69|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | 3.74|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship depth= | Ship propulsion=*2 shaft steam turbines- 2 boilers
- {{convert|16000|hp|kW|-2|abbr=on}}
| 28|kn|mph km/h|lk=in}} | Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship boats= | Ship complement=116 | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | 100|mm|in|abbr=on|0}} / 47 caliber guns- 10 × {{convert|20|mm|in|abbr=on}} anti-aircraft guns
- 8 × {{convert|13.2|mm|in|abbr=on}} AA machine guns
- 4 × {{convert|450|mm|in|abbr=on}} torpedo tubes[2]
- 6 × depth charge throwers
| Ship armour= | Ship notes=
}} | The Orsa class were a group of large torpedo boats or destroyer escorts built for the Italian Navy in the late 1930s. They were an enlarged version of the {{sclass-|Spica|torpedo boat|2}}, with more endurance and a greater depth charge load but less powerful machinery and a lighter gun armament. The surviving pair were rebuilt as anti-submarine frigates in the 1950s. Ships| Ship | builder | Launched | Operational History |
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| Italian torpedo boat|Pegaso|1936|2}} | BS Napoletani | 8 December 1936 | Upholder|P37|6}}, HMS Undaunted, HMS Urge (or possibly struck a mine)[3] and {{HMS|Thorn|N11|6}}. She was part of the screen of destroyers and torpedo boats escorting a four-freighter convoy to Tripoli on 26 May 1941,[4] when two Blenheim bombers were shot down.[5] She also took part in the shooting down of a Beaufort bomber and a Beaufighter while escorting another convoy on 21 August 1942.[6] Pegaso was one of the most successful Axis anti-submarine warships of World War II. Scuttled 11 September 1943 | | Procione | BS Napoletani | 31 January 1937 | Scuttled 11 September 1943 | | Orione | CNR Palermo | 21 April 1937 | Survived the war and served in the post-war Marina Militare. Decommissioned 1964 | | Orsa | CNR Palermo | 21 March 1937 | Along with the Spica-class Climene, she shot down three attacking British aircraft on 24 July 1942 while escorting the transport Vettor Pisani, which was beached and lost after the airstrike. Survived the war and served in the post-war Marina Militare. Decommissioned 1964 | |
References1. ^Conway's All the World's Fighting ships 1922-1946
2. ^Marina Militare
3. ^Barrow Submariners Association
4. ^Naval Events, May 1941, Part 2 of 2
5. ^Shores, Cull & Malizia, p. 223
6. ^Shores, Cull & Malizia (1991). Malta: The Spitfire Year 1942. Grub Street, p. 524. {{ISBN|0-948817-16-X}}
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