Italian destroyer Nicoloso da Recco

Sister ship Nicolo Zeno at Anchor.
History
Italy
Name	Nicoloso da Recco
Namesake	Nicoloso da Recco
Launched	5 March 1930
Stricken	15 July 1954
General characteristics
Type	Template:Sclass2-
Displacement	1,900 long tons (1,900 t) standard 2,580 long tons (2,620 t) full load
Length	107.3 m (352 ft 0 in)
Beam	10.21 m (33 ft 6 in)
Draught	3.4 m (11 ft 2 in)
Installed power	50,000 shp (37,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts, Parsons-type geared steam turbines 4 boilers
Speed	38 knots (70 km/h; 44 mph)
Complement	173 (peacetime), 224 (wartime)
Armament	6 × 120 mm (4.7 in)/50 guns (3x2) Built: 2 × 40 mm pom-pom guns (2×1) Refit: 2 x 37 mm (1.5 in) guns (2×1) 4 × 13.2 mm machine guns 2 × 3 - 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes

Nicoloso da Recco was a Template:Sclass2- built for the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) in 1930. Named after the Italian Renaissance seaman Nicoloso da Recco, she served during World War II in which she was the sole survivor of her destroyer class. She shot down three Beaufort bombers while escorting a two-freighter convoy on 21 June 1942 off Tunisia. On 2 December 1942 Nicoloso Da Recco took part of the Battle of Skerki Bank, where an Italo-German convoy carrying troops and supplies to Libya was obliterated by Allied naval forces. Nicoloso Da Recco was the only vessel of her class to survive the war, and was eventually scrapped in July 1954.

References

• Shores, Christopher F.; Cull, Brian; Malizia, Nicola (1991). Malta: The Spitfire Year. London, UK: Grub Street. ISBN 978-0-948817-16-8.