Italian destroyer Impavido (D 570)

Impavido (D 570) is the lead ship of the Impavido-class destroyer of the Italian Navy.

For other ships with the same name, see Italian ship Impavido.
Impavido underway in the Mediterranean Sea on 19 May 1983.
History
 Italy
Name: Impavido
Namesake: Impavido
Operator: Italian Navy
Builder: Cantiere navale di Riva Trigoso
Laid down: 10 June 1957
Launched: 25 May 1962
Commissioned: 16 November 1963
Decommissioned: June 1992
Identification: Pennant number: D 570
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics Data from [1]
Class and type: Impavido-class destroyer
Displacement:
  • 3,201 ton standard
  • 3,941 tons full load
Length: 130.9 m (429 ft 6 in)
Beam: 13.6 m (44 ft 7 in)
Draught: 4.5 m (14 ft 9 in)
Propulsion:
  • 2 shaft geared turbines
  • 4 Foster Wheeler boilers, 70,000 hp (52,000 kW)
Speed: 34 kn (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Range: 3,300 nmi (6,100 km; 3,800 mi) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement: 344 (15 officers, 319 enlisted)
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • AN/SPS-12 Air search radar
  • AN/SPS-39 3D radar
  • AN/SPG-51 Tartar fire control
  • AN/SQS-23 sonar[2]
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 1 Helicopter

Development

The Impavido-class were the first guided missile destroyers of the Italian Navy. The vessels were commissioned in the early 1960s and were roughly equal to the American Charles F. Adams-class destroyer. Both classes shared the Tartar missile system, with a Mk 13 launcher, and carried around 40 missiles. They had two fire control radars to guide their weaponry and all this was fitted in the aft of the ship. Both classes also had two single 127 mm (5 in) guns, but the American ships had these in single mountings and in a new model, the Mk 42, one fore and the other aft, while the Impavido-class made use of an older Mk 38 dual turret.[3][4]

Construction and career

She is laid down on 10 June 1957 and launched on 25 May 1962 by Cantiere navale di Riva Trigoso. Commissioned on 16 November 1963 with the hull number D 570 and decommissioned in June 1992.

References
  1. Blackman 1971, p. 184.
  2. Gardiner and Chumbley 1995, p. 207.
  3. "IMPAVIDO missile destroyers (1963 - 1964)". www.navypedia.org. Retrieved 2020-09-27.
  4. "Impavido class Guided-Missile Destroyer". Helis.com. Retrieved 2020-09-27.


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