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Monday, 16 May 2016

Italian light cruiser (ex-Saida) Venezia in 1923

Launched in 1912, completed in 1915, displacement 3.444 tons, horsepower 25.000 hp, coal-oil fired turbine direct drive and an armament of 9-3.9” guns, 1-3” gun, 3 smaller and machineguns, 3x2 torpedo tubes and 120 mines.(1)

Note
1. Former Austrian cruiser SMS Saida of the Novara-class scout cruisers, laid down at Cantiere Naval Triestino, Montfalcone on 9 September 1911, launched on 26 October 1912, completed on 1 August 194, handed over to Italy on 19 September 1920, laid up in 1935 and sold to be broken up on 11 March 1937.

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.