Italian Navy (Marina Militare) Audace-class destroyer “Ardito” at the Jubilee Naval Review, Spithead, 28th June 1977.
Builder: Cantieri del Tirreno, Riva Trigoso
Displacements: 3,600 standard, 4,400 full load
Length overall: 136.6 m
Max. draft: 4.6 m
Engines: 2 x Ansaldo-General Electric geared turbines, total 73,000 s.h.p.; twin-screw
Speed: 33 knots
Complement: 30 officers, 350 ratings
Laid down 19 July 1968
Commissioned 5 December 1973
Underwent modernisation 1984-88
decommissioned 28 September 2006
Sold December 2017 for scrapping at Aliaga, Turkey