Luciana-Class Destroyer

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Class overview
Name: Luciana-class destroyer
Builders: Royal Shipbuilders of Cacerta
Operators: CRNEnsign.png Cacertian Royal Navy
Preceded by: Eusebia-class
Succeeded by: Elvira-class
In commission: 1929 – 1941
Planned: 30
Completed: 18
Cancelled: 12
Lost: 6
Retired: 12
Preserved: 2
General characteristics
Type: Destroyer
Displacement:
  • 1,612 tons standard
  • 2,039 tons fully loaded
Length: 112.8 meters
Beam: 10.2 meters
Draft: 4.8 meters
Propulsion:
  • 2 × CNRC geared steam turbines
  • 3 × CNRC water-tube boilers
  • 2 × shafts each driving four-bladed propellers
Speed: 38.3 knots (71 km/h)
Range: 4,800 nautical miles at 12 knots
Complement: 236 officers and crew
Armament:
  • Guns:
  • 4 × 130mm RN-DII guns (4 × 1)
  • Anti-aircraft:
  • 2 × 75mm RN-DPII guns (2 × 1)
  • 2 × 40mm RN-AAIV guns (2 × 1)
  • 2 × MG50 machine guns (2 × 1)
  • Other:
  • 6 × 540mm torpedo tubes (2 × 3)
  • 2 × depth charge throwers
  • 25 × depth charges
  • 95 × mines

The Luciana-class was a class of eighteen destroyers built by the Cacertian Royal Navy in the 1930s. The first in a new class of fast destroyers, the Luciana-class was developed in conjunction with the Ambra-class.

During their service life, all of the Luciana-class ships were known to be plagued with significant problems which included issues with structural weaknesses, limited seaworthiness, and various mechanical problems with their machinery. Production of the Lucianas was halted after eighteen of the planned thirty ships were completed with resources instead being allocated to the more mechanically reliable successor destroyers.

Despite their severe technical issues, lessons learned from the development of the technology implemented aboard the Luciana led to the later more successful Elvira-class. Six of the destroyers were sunk during the Siduri War with remaining twelve decommissioned after its conclusion.

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