Name: | PIEMONTE |
Type: | Cruiser |
Keel: | 12/02/1887 |
Launched: | 23/08/1888 |
Completed: | 08/08/1889 |
Builder: | Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Elswick |
Yard Number: | 510 |
Dimensions: | 2639disp, 300.0 x 38.2 x 16.7(draft)ft; |
(1920: 1758grt, 1218nrt, 313.4, 38.2 x 21.8ft) | |
Engines: | 2 x T3cyl (36, 55 & 60, 60 x 27ins), 12700ihp; |
(1905: 2 x T3cyl (19.5, 36 & 55 x 27ins), 315nhp) | |
Engines by: | Humphrey & Tennant, London |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 22.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 6 x 1 x 6.0ins, 6 x 1 x 4.7ins guns; 3 x 14.0ins torpedoes |
History: | |
08/08/1889 | Italian Navy |
1921 | SA La Petrolifera Italo Rumena, La Spezia; renamed EDDA |
1924 | SA Maris, Genoa; renamed MARISEDDA |
1925 | Maris Cia di Nav SA, Genoa |
by 1930 | Scopinich & Monta, Genoa |
07/01/1932 | Broken up |
Comments: | 1905: Re-engined by Humphrey & Tennant |
1920: Converted to a tanker | |
07/01/1932: Broken up at Savona |
Above photo from an 1898 copy of the Navy and Army Illustrated, courtesy of Kevin Blair
Above photo courtesy of Giorgio Pargoi
Above photo as MARISEDDA courtesy of Photoship
Above photo as MARISEDDA courtesy of Photoship