Of the Pisa-class with as sister ship the Amalfi and the Greek cruiser Georgios Averof. Laid down at the Cantiere navale fratelli Orlando, Livorno, Italy, Italy on 20 February 1905, launched on 15 September 1907, completed on 1 September 1909, reclassified from a 2nd class battleship into a coastal battleship and used as training ship on 1 July 1921, modified to take a Macchi M7 flying boat with her in 1925, training ship for lieutenants and naval cadets 1925-1930, decommissioned on 28 April 1937 and finally broken up.
With a displacement of 9.832 tons/9.677 long tons and as dimensions 130 (between perpendiculars)-140,5 (over all) x 21 x 7,1 metres or 426.6-460.11 x 68.11 x 23.4 feet. The two vertical triple expansion engines and 22 Belleville boilers delivered via 2 shafts 20.000 ihp allowing a speed of 23 knots or with a speed of 12 knots a range pf 2.500 nautical miles. The armour consisted of a 9cm (bow+stern)-20cm (amidships)/3.5-7.9” thick belt, a 5,1cm/2.0” thick deck with the conning tower, 254,cm gun turrets and 19cm gun turrets protected by respectively 18cm/7.1”, 16cm/6.3” and 14cm/5.5” thick armour. The original armament consisted of 2x2-25,4cm/10” L/45 guns, 4x2-19cm/7.5” l/45 guns, 16x1-7,6cm/3.0”L/40 guns, 8x1-4,7c,/1.9”L/40 guns and 3-45cm/17.7” torpedo tubes.
