Italian cruiser Francesco Ferruccio
Francesco Ferruccio, probably in the Scheldt | |
| History | |
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| Kingdom of Italy | |
| Name | Francesco Ferruccio |
| Namesake | Francesco Ferruccio |
| Builder | Venetian Arsenal |
| Laid down | 19 August 1899 |
| Launched | 23 April 1902 |
| Christened | Isabella, Duchess of Genoa |
| Completed | 1 September 1905 |
| Reclassified | As training ship, 1919 |
| Stricken | 1 April 1930 |
| Identification | by 1914: call sign IHZ |
| Motto | "Let us go where our fortune and that of our country call us" |
| Fate | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Giuseppe Garibaldi-class armored cruiser |
| Displacement | 7,350 metric tons (7,234 long tons) |
| Length | 111.8 m (366 ft 10 in) |
| Beam | 18.2 m (59 ft 9 in) |
| Draft | 7.3 m (23 ft 11 in) |
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| Speed | 19–20 knots (35–37 km/h; 22–23 mph) |
| Range | 5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
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Francesco Ferruccio was a Giuseppe Garibaldi-class armored cruiser built for the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) in the first decade of the 20th century. The ship made several deployments to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant during her career. At the beginning of the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–12 she bombarded Tripoli and then Beirut in early 1912 before being transferred to Libya. During World War I, Francesco Ferruccio's activities were limited by the threat of Austro-Hungarian submarines and she became a training ship in 1919. The ship was struck from the naval register in 1930 and subsequently scrapped.