Caio Duilio class battleship (1876) Museo Storico Navale hidden torpedo boat a photos by Emil Petrinic
Constructed in England by Thornycroft to a design by Italian engineer Luigi Borghi, Clio was equipped with a pair of stern-dropped 14-inch Whitehead torpedoes– the same used by the battleship’s own submerged tubes– and a 37mm deck gun. She could make 18 knots on her coal-fired locomotive boiler but was a day-runner with no accommodation for her 10-man crew. Caio Duilio class battleship (1876) Museo Storico Navale hidden torpedo boat a photos by Emil Petrinic