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- Guided Missile Destroyer D 550 ITS Ardito |
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class: Guided Missile Destroyer / DDG; Audace class Builder: Italcantieri SpA, Castellammare di Stabia, Italy STATUS: Laid down: July 19, 1968 Launched: November 27, 1971 Commissioned: December 5, 1973 Decommissioned: September 28, 2006 Fate: towed to Aliaga, Turkey / finally scrapped Namesake: Ardito = brave, daring Ships Motto: NIHIL OBEST (nothing stands in the way) Technical Data: see INFO > Audace class Guided Missile Destroyer |
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  BEFORE MODERNISATION    prepared for her final journey to Turkey  |
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ITS Ardito (D 550): Ardito participated, together with the frigate Lupo, from 18 July 1979 to 4 February 1980, in a representative cruise circumnavigating the world, touching as many as 33 foreign ports, under the command of Admiral Enrico Rossi. From 2 July 1983 to 26 February 1984 the ship participated in the ITALCON mission in Lebanon in Beirut - 3 missions for a total of 198 days in Lebanese territorial waters - which ended on 26 February in Livorno with the parade of the troops. Ardito was towed to Aliaga, Turkey and scrapped there in 2018. |
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