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Description: Storione, like her sisterships Salmone, Squalo, and Sgombro, were American-designed and built oceaninc minesweepers made for the Italian navy with funds from the Mutual Defense Assistance program. Their construction started back in 1953 in various San Diego’s shipyards; they were launched in 1954 and completed in 1956. On 23 February of the same year, the ship was delivered to the Italian Navy, where it was renamed Storione M5431. In the Italian service, the ships were mainly used as coastal patrol and fishing control vessels rather than minesweepers. They still performed some acoustic, magnetic, and mechanic mine-dredging missions, but only very few times. Like any other ship of the same class, the Storione and her sisterships were lightly armed, but they could have still fought back a coastal patrol vessel. They were indeed armed with a single 40/56 mm Bofors fast-firing cannon in the front and two 12.7 mm guns for anti-aircraft roles in the side. In the early nineties, after nearly forty years of service, Storione and its sistership, Salmone, were retired and scrapped quickly after. The other two units of the class, Squalo and Sgombro, received minor electronics refits and remained in service until the early 2000’s, when they were decommissioned too.
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Classe Salmone - Wikipedia
SALMONE - dragamine (**) - Gruppo di Cultura Navale
0683 * Classe SALMONE l.f.t. 52,72 m – 1:48 | Associazione Navimodellisti Bolognesi
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