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Agordat-class cruiser
The ''Agordat class'' was a pair of torpedo cruisers built by the Italian ''Regia Marina'' (Royal Navy) in the late 1890s. The two ships, and , were armed with twelve guns and two torpedo tubes. They proved to be too slow and have too short a cruising radius to be of much use, so their service careers were limited. Their most significant action came during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–12, where both ships were employed in shore bombardment duties. Neither ship saw action in World War I. ''Coatit'' was converted into a minelayer in 1919 and sold for scrapping the following year, while ''Agordat'' was rearmed as a gunboat in 1921; she followed her sister to the breakers in 1923.
==Design==
The ships of the ''Agordat'' class were long between perpendiculars and long overall. They had a beam of and a draft of . ''Agordat'' and ''Coatit'' displaced up to and , respectively, at full load. The ships were originally fitted with two pole masts, but the mainmast was removed in both vessels. The forecastle deck extended to the conning tower, where it stepped down to the main deck, which ran to main mast, where it was reduced to a short quarterdeck. They had a crew of between 153–185.〔Gardiner, p. 348〕
Their propulsion system consisted of a pair of horizontal triple-expansion steam engines each driving a single screw propeller, with steam supplied by eight Blechynden water-tube boilers. The boilers were trunked into two widely-spaced funnels on the centerline, with those on ''Agordat'' being slightly taller than those on ''Coatit''. The engines were rated at and produced a top speed of , with ''Coatit'' being the slightly faster ship. The ships had a cruising radius of only about at a speed of . Their limited range proved to be a severe handicap when the ships entered service, since they could not easily serve on foreign stations, where the ability to cruise long distances was required.〔 Additionally, they were only marginally faster than the contemporary battleship design, the , which limited their utility as fleet scouts.〔Gardiner, pp. 343, 348〕
''Agordat'' and ''Coatit'' were armed with a main battery of twelve L/40 guns mounted singly.〔L/40 refers to the length of the gun in terms of caliber.〕 Ten of the guns were placed in sponsons, with five on each side of the ship. The other two were in casemates in the forecastle. The ships were also equipped with two torpedo tubes. In 1919, ''Coatit'' was converted into a minelayer; this involved removing eight of the 76 mm guns and replacing them with a pair of L/40 guns. ''Agordat'' was converted into a gunboat in 1921 and she was similarly rearmed, though she retained eight of the 76 mm guns. The ships were only lightly armored, with a thick deck.〔
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