Italian destroyer Francesco Stocco

Francesco Stocco was the third of four Giuseppe Sirtori-class destroyers built for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in the 1910s.

Design
The ships of the Giuseppe Sirtori class were 72.5 m long at the waterline and 73.54 m long overall, with a beam of 7.34 m and a mean draft of 2.7 m. They displaced 709 t standard and up to 914 t at full load. They had a crew of 98 officers and enlisted men. The ships were powered by two steam turbines, with steam provided by four Thornycroft water-tube boilers. The engines were rated to produce 15500 shp for a top speed of 30 kn, though in service they reached as high as 33.6 kn from around 17000 shp. At a more economical speed of 15 kn, the ships could cruise for 1700 nmi.

Franco Stocco was armed with a main battery of six 102 mm guns. Her light armament consisted of a pair of 40 mm anti-aircraft guns and two 6.5 mm machine guns. She was also equipped with four 450 mm torpedo tubes in two twin launchers, one on each side of the ship. The ship also carried ten naval mines.

Service history
Francesco Stocco was built at the Cantieri navali Odero shipyard in Sestri Ponente, and was launched on 5 June 1917.

After the Italian surrender to the Allies on 3 September 1943, German forces launched a major attack against their erstwhile ally. Francesco Stocco was attacked and sunk by German bombers on 24 September while cruising off Corfu.