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|+ ''Pilo'' Class
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|Ship image =File:RN Fratelli Cairoli.jpg
|Ship caption = ''Fratelli Cairoli'' underway
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{{Infobox ship class overview
|Name =  ''Pilo'' class
|Builders = 
*[[Cantieri navali Odero|Odero]], [[Sestri Ponente]] 
*[[Cantiere Pattison|Pattison]], [[Naples]]
|Operators =*{{navy|Kingdom of Italy|name=''Regia Marina''}} (1916–1943)
*{{navy|Nazi Germany|''Kriegsmarine''}} (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
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|Ship class = Pilo class [[torpedo boat]]
|Ship displacement =*912 tons (max)
*770 tons (standard)
|Ship length = {{convert|73|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship beam = {{convert|7.3|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship draught = {{convert|2.3|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship power ={{convert|16000|bhp|lk=in}}
|Ship propulsion =*1 × Tosi steam turbines
*4 × [[Thornycroft]] boilers
|Ship speed = {{convert|30|kn|lk=in}}
|Ship range = {{convert|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 [[Cannon 76/40 Model 1916]]
*2 × 1 [[Cannon 76/40 Model 1916|76mm/30]] AA
*4 × 1 450mm [[torpedo tube]]s
*10 [[Naval mine|mine]]s
*1919–1921:
*5 × 1 [[Cannon 102/35 Model 1914|{{Convert|102|mm|in|abbr=on}}/35]] guns
*2 × 1 - [[QF 2-pounder naval gun|40 mm/39]] AA
*4 × 1 450mm torpedo tubes
|Ship armour =
|Ship notes =
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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 boat]]s 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 [[Armistice of Cassibile|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 [[Torpedoboot Ausland|re-designated as torpedo boats]] and put into service with the [[Kriegsmarine]]. ''TA22'' was attacked by the all-[[African Americans|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==
{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:97%;"
|-valign=top
! | Name
! | Pennant<ref name="frac p72">Fraccaroli 1970, p. 72.</ref>
! | Builder<ref name="frac p72"/>
! | Laid down <ref name="frac p72"/>
! | Launched<ref name="frac p72"/>
! | Completed<ref name="frac p72"/>
! | Operational History
|-
|-valign=top
|  | {{ship|Italian destroyer|Rosolino Pilo||2}}
|  | PN
|  | [[Cantieri navali Odero|Odero]], [[Sestri Ponente]]
|  | 19 August 1913
|  | 24 March 1915
|  | 25 May 1915
|  | Stricken October 1954

|-valign=top
|  | {{ship|Italian destroyer|Giuseppe Cesare Abba||2}}
|  | AB
|  | Odero, Sestri Ponente
|  | 19 August 1913
|  | 25 May 1915
|  | 6 July 1915
|  | Stricken September 1958

|-valign=top
|  | {{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.<br> Scuttled 16 September 1943, but refloated by German Navy as''TA35'', re-commissioning 9 June 1944.<br> Sunk by mine 17 August 1944 but again refloated. Scuttled 3 May 1945.<ref name="frac p72"/><ref name="conway06 p269">Fraccaroli 1985, p. 269.</ref>

|-valign=top
|  | {{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.<ref name="frac p72"/>

|-valign=top
|  | {{ship|Italian destroyer|Antonio Mosto||2}}
|  | MO, MT
|  | [[Cantiere Pattison|Pattison]], [[Naples]]
|  | 9 October 1913
|  | 20 May 1915
|  | 7 July 1915
|  | Minesweeper 1953.<br>Stricken 15 December 1958.<ref name="frac p72"/>

|-valign=top
|  | {{ship|Italian destroyer|Ippolito Nievo||2}}
|  | NV
|  | Odero, Sestri Ponente
|  | 19 August 1913
|  | 24 July 1915
|  | 1 October 1915
|  | Stricken 24 April 1938.<ref name="frac p72"/>

|-valign=top
|  | {{ship|Italian destroyer|Francesco Nullo|1914|2}}
|  | CL
|  | Pattison, Naples
|  | 24 September 1913
|  | 12 November 1914
|  | 1 May 1915
|  | Renamed ''Fratelli Cairoli'' 16 January 1921.<br> Sunk by mine off Libya 23 September 1940.<ref name="frac p72"/>

|-valign=top
|  | {{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<ref name=colombo>{{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|access-date = 2015-12-21|first = Lorenzo|last = Colombo}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?161098|title = SS Athinai|access-date = 20 December 2015|publisher = Wrecksite}}</ref>
Sunk by an Italian mine off [[Cap Bon]] 24 April 1941.<ref name="frac p72" />

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== Notes ==
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==Citations==
{{Reflist}}

==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|last=Fraccaroli|first=Aldo|chapter=Italy|pages=252–290|editor1-last=Gray|editor1-first=Randal|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921|year=1985|location=Annapolis |publisher=Naval Institute Press|isbn=978-0-87021-907-8}}
*{{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 ==
* [https://www.marina.difesa.it/noi-siamo-la-marina/mezzi/mezzi-storici/Pagine/PQRS/pilo.aspx Rosolino Pilo (1915)] Marina Militare website

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