NEMBO (Royal Italian Navy)

Aldo Fraccaroli photo-card, vmf, 

5.5" x 3.5", 140mm x 90mm (approx)

our ref: SRQ731

NEMBO

Nembo-class destroyer built at Naples that commissioned in to the Regia Marina in 1902. Originally built with 2 funnels, some time after 1909 she was reboilered and then had 3 funnels and then, after 1912, had a boiler (and funnel) removed. She was sunk 16/10/1916 by the Austro-Hungarian submarine U-16 with the loss of 32 of her 55 crew.