Enrico Morin approached destroyers through questions of organization and employment as well as hull design. The Nembo class displaced roughly 330 tons normally and just under 400 tons at full load. Armament varied between ships, with some carrying several trainable torpedo tubes and a forward-firing bow tube that gave them a pronounced torpedo-boat character. The design drew on Thornycroft practice; HMS Stag offers a visual comparison, with similar hull lines visible in photographs taken from similar angles. Wartime losses to Austro-Hungarian surface ships and a submarine illustrate the hazards these vessels faced, while survivors were rerated as torpedo boats in 1921.
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Nembo and Morin's operational theory
Morin's ideas about destroyer employment accompanied the Nembo class, whose small hulls and torpedo-heavy variants blurred the distinction from torpedo boats.