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Monday, 16 May 2016

Italian light cruiser (ex-Graudenz) Ancona in 1923


Launched in 1913, completed in 1914, displacement 4.842 tons, horsepower 26.000 hp, coal-oil fired turbine direct drive and an armament of 7-5.9” guns, 5 smaller and machineguns, 4 torpedo tubes and 120 mines.(1)

Note
1. German SMS Graudenz of the Graudenz-class, laid down under the temporarily name Ersatz Prinzess Wilhelm at the Imperial Navy Yard, Kiel, Germany in 1912, launched on 25 October 1913, commissioned on 10 August 1914, stricken on 10 March 1920, handed over to Italy on 1 June 1920, laud up in reserve in 1932, stricken on 11 March 1937 and broken up.

Source
Archive Dutch Naval Staff 1886-1942 (National Archive at The Hague, Netherlands) inventory number 155. Fleets (the British Empire and foreign countries) on 1 February 1923.