Set up on 6 August 1899, it was launched on 16 May 1901. The “Nembo” project was based on the “27 knotters” types which had not met with great success in the British Navy.
However, the project had been improved by the Neapolitan Pattison shipyards, which gave the units more solid structures, a more substantial armament, but still based on the 57 / 43 mm caliber and 356 mm torpedo launchers, a high-power engine capable of giving a speed slightly greater: in fact, following the tests, units were defined from 30 nodes, even if then in service they did not exceed the 28 nodes.
With the radical modernization to which all six units will be subjected to 1908 and 1912 in terms of engine equipment (conversion to liquid fuel) and armament (transition to the caliber from 76 / 40 mm, more suited to the tasks, and torpedo launchers from 450 mm) the "Nembo" could be considered in the same way as similar contemporary units. The only drawback detected in their long use, the low and too forward position of the control structure which, even with a manageable sea at the bow, was continually hit by splashes.
Source: Military Navy
