Italy navy increasing her strength of destroyers according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1937 No. 3

An item referred to the magazine Schiffbau dated 1 March 1937 reporting that the in 1936 launched 4-1.675 ton destroyers Alfredo Oriani, Vincenzo Gioberti, Giosuè Carducci and Vittorio Alfieri (1) had as dimensions 105 x 10,15 x 6,13 metres. The armament consisted of 4-12cm/4.7” guns, 4-3,7cm/1.5” anti aircraft guns and 6-53,3cm/21” torpedo tubes. With a horsepower of 50.000hp was a maximum speed of 39 knots possible and was the range 5.000 nautical miles. The Odero-Terni-Orlando shipyard was ordered to built another 6 off this type and 6 similar ships were ordered by the shipyards Del Terreno et Riva Trigoso, Ancona and Navali Rimiti at Palermo, Italy.

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1. Of the Oriani-class or Poeti-class all built by OTO (Cantiere naval fratelli Orlando), Livorno, Italy, preceded by the Maestrale-class and succeeded by the Soldati-class.