Italian destroyer Giovanni Acerbi

Giovanni Acerbi was the second of four Giuseppe Sirtori-class destroyers built for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) during World War I.

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.

Giovanni Acerbi 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
Giovanni Acerbi was built at the Cantieri navali Odero shipyard in Sestri Ponente, and was launched on 14 February 1917.

The ship was sunk by British aircraft on 4 April 1941 in the port of Massawa in Italian Eritrea.