Sella-class destroyer

Class overview
Destroyer Sella at anchor
Builders:	Pattison, Naples
Operators:	Regia Marina Swedish Navy
In commission:	1926–1940s
Completed:	4
Lost:	2
Retired:	2
General characteristics
Type:	Destroyer
Displacement:	970 long tons (990 t) standard 1,480 long tons (1,500 t) full load
Length:	89.4 m (293 ft 4 in)
Beam:	8.6 m (28 ft 3 in)
Draught:	2.7 m (8 ft 10 in)
Propulsion:	2 shaft Parsons type geared turbines 3 boilers 36,000 hp (26,800 kW)
Speed:	35 knots (40 mph; 65 km/h)
Range:	1,800 nmi (3,300 km) at 14 kn (16 mph; 26 km/h)
Complement:	153
Armament:	4 × 120 mm (4.7 in) guns (2×2)^[1] 2 × 40 mm pom-pom anti-aircraft guns 2 × 13.2 mm machine guns 4 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes (2×2) 32 mines

The Sella-class destroyers were a ship class of destroyers built for the Italian Regia Marina in the 1920s. Two of these ships fought in World War II and both were sunk after the Italian capitulation to the Allies. Two more ships were sold to the Swedish Navy in 1940 and were scrapped in the late 1940s.

These ships formed the basis for most subsequent destroyers built by the Italians, but were disappointing in service with unreliable machinery.

During the War, the destroyers were based at the island of Leros, in the Dodecanese. They took part in the Italian retaking of Kastelorizo (named Operation Abstention by the British) on 27 February 1941, and were used as mother ships for the attack by explosive motor boats on HMS York on 25 March. Crispi led the landing of an Italian division on Sitia, Crete, on 28 May 1941, in the course of the battle of Crete.

Ships

All four ships were built by the Pattison shipyard in Naples

completed 29 April 1927,

seized by the Germans after the Italian Armistice in September 1943, served as TA15, sunk by air attack on 8 March 1944 in the Aegean Sea.

completed 25 March 1926,

sunk by German E-boats on 11 September 1943 in the Adriatic Sea.

commissioned 11 December 1926.

Sold to the Swedish Navy as HSwMS Puke.

commissioned 8 January 1927.

Sold to the Swedish Navy as the HSwMS Psilander.

Whitley, M.J. (1988). Destroyers of World War 2. Cassell Publishing. ISBN 1-85409-521-8.
- Tragedy destroyer Quintino Sella 11 września 1943 r. (PL)

↑ Campbell, John (1985). Naval Weapons of World War Two. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 336. ISBN 0-87021-459-4.

Sella-class destroyers

Regia Marina	Quintino Sella Bettino Ricasoli Giovanni Nicotera Francesco Crispi

Kriegsmarine	TA 15 (ex-Francesco Crispi)

Swedish Navy Psilander class	Psilander (ex-Giovanni Nicotera) Puke (ex-Bettino Ricasoli)

Preceded by: Leone class Followed by: Sauro class

List of destroyers of the Regia Marina

Ocean-going	Balilla Ettore Fieramosca^S Archimede Glauco Pietro Micca^S Calvi Marcello Foca Brin Liuzzi Marconi Cagni R

Sea-going	Mameli Pisani Bandiera Squalo Bragadin Argonauta Settembrini Sirena Perla Adua Argo Acciaio Flutto

Coastal/midget	H CA CB CC CM

Other

Swedish naval ship classes of World War II

Coastal defence ships	Dristigheten^S Äran Oscar II^S Sverige

Armoured cruisers	Fylgia^S

Light cruisers	Gotland^S Tre Kronor^I

Protected cruisers	Clas Fleming^S

Minelayers	Älvsnabben^S

Destroyers	Wale^S Ragnar Hugin Wrangel Ehrensköld Klas Göteborg Sella^RM Mode Visby Öland^I

Torpedo boats	Komet Plejad Spica^RM

Submarines	Hajen Bävern Valen^S Draken Delfinen Sjölejonet Kust Neptun

Minesweepers	Sökaren Arholma

Patrol boats	Jägaren

S Single ship of class RM Purchased from Regia Marina I Incomplete until the end of the war

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