WWI Esploratore Leggero: Seeking Information

[jorgeY]

Hi,
I would like to have more information about the Esploratore Leggero "Cesare Rossariol". I known already where and when she ended (1918 in front of Ližnjan, Croatia), but I'm lacking of further previous information.
Thank you
jorgey

PS: in the meantime I found something else about it:

http://www.marina.difesa.it/storiacultura/storia/almanacco/Pagine/PQRS/rossariol01.aspx

and for her class, Poerio:

http://www.marina.difesa.it/storiacultura/storia/almanacco/Pagine/PQRS/poerio.aspx

[Blaydon]

Titled as Esploratori Leggieri (Light Scouts) they were the equivalent of other navies Destroyer Flotilla Leaders.

The Poerio class were designed by Society Gio Ansalado & Co of Genoa.

Alessandro Poerio
Guglielmo Pepe
Cesare Rossarol

Displacement 1028t normal load
Dimentions 272ft 8in x 26ft 3in x 9ft 3in
Machinery 2 shafts Belluzzo turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers 20,000hp
Speed 31.5 kts
Armament 6 x 4in/35 Guns, 4 x 450mm TT, 42 mines.
Crew 5 + 124

Rossarol was sunk by a mine 16 November 1918 off Punta Merlera in the northern adriatic.
Pepe and Poerio were transfered to Nationalist Spain in June 1938 being renamed Teruel and Huesca and were disposed of in 1947 and 1949 respectively.

[jorgeY]

Titled as Esploratori Leggieri (Light Scouts) they were the equivalent of other navies Destroyer Flotilla Leaders.

The Poerio class were designed by Society Gio Ansalado & Co of Genoa.

Alessandro Poerio
Guglielmo Pepe
Cesare Rossarol

Displacement 1028t normal load
Dimentions 272ft 8in x 26ft 3in x 9ft 3in
Machinery 2 shafts Belluzzo turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers 20,000hp
Speed 31.5 kts
Armament 6 x 4in/35 Guns, 4 x 450mm TT, 42 mines.
Crew 5 + 124

Rossarol was sunk by a mine 16 November 1918 off Punta Merlera in the northern adriatic.
Pepe and Poerio were transfered to Nationalist Spain in June 1938 being renamed Teruel and Huesca and were disposed of in 1947 and 1949 respectively.

thank you blaydon,

very interesting the info about the spanish navy. But, what I meant with previous was the her history in the war, before it was struck by the mine. In the meantime I found it at the italian wiki. http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Rossarol_(esploratore_1915)

The sunk place is not off Merlera, or not exactly. The Cesare lays in two pieces off the coast of Ližnjan/Lisignano, north-east from Merlera.

I found interesting that in no photo I saw of the Cesare could I find a big telemeter at the back, installed in a kind of platform, that I see at the wreck. It must be a modification. The guns were changed in 1918, maybe at that moment was installed the telemeter. You can see there also one gun. The other part, the bow, impress for the quantity of ammunition laying in the hull.

jorge

[jorgeY]

I found out that links ending with an ")" are not taken right by the system. The link in my last comment was not functioning. Here the link edited by hand:

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Rossarol_(esploratore_1915)