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Italian destroyer Strale

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Name
  
Strale

Completed
  
6 March 1932

Launched
  
26 March 1931

Beam
  
9.75 m

Laid down
  
20 February 1929

Construction started
  
20 February 1929

Length
  
96 m

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Fate
  
Ran aground, 21 March 1942

Type
  
Freccia-class destroyer

Displacement
  
1,205 long tons (1,224 t) standard 2,116 long tons (2,150 t) full load

Strale was a Freccia-class destroyer built for the Regia Marina in the early 1930s. The ship was built by Odero of Sestri Ponente and was launched on 26 March 1931. During the Second World War, Strale rammed and sunk the British submarine HMS Odin along with the destroyer Baleno on 14 June 1940. She was beached near Cape Bon on 21 March 1942 and later was destroyed by torpedoes from the British submarine Turbulent on 21 June 1942.

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Italian destroyer Strale Wikipedia