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''Amalfi'' was a armored cruiser of the Italian Royal Navy ((イタリア語:Regia Marina)) built in the first decade of the 20th century. During the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–12, ''Amalfi'' operated with the Italian fleet off Tripoli in September 1911 and participated in the amphibious landings at Derna in October. In April 1912, ''Amalfi'' and sister ship led the way in attacks on Turkish forts in the Dardanelles. After the rest of the fleet retired later in the month, the pair of armored cruisers remained in the area to attack Turkish communications facilities. After the Treaty of Lausanne signed in October 1912 ended the war, ''Amalfi'' escorted the Italian king and queen on the royal yacht to Germany and Sweden during a 1913 visit. At the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Italy declined to join her Triple Alliance partners, Germany and Austria-Hungary. The country was eventually persuaded to side with the Entente Powers and declared war on neighboring Austria-Hungary in May 1915. After the Austro-Hungarian Navy raided the Italian coast with relative impunity in May and June, ''Amalfi'', ''Pisa'', and two other armored cruisers were sent to Venice to thwart future sorties by the Austrians. Shortly after their arrival, the ships were sent—in a show of force—to patrol near the main Austrian naval base at Pola on the night of 6/7 July 1915. During ''Amalfi''s return from that mission, she was torpedoed by Austria-Hungarian submarine (in fact flying the Austro-Hungarian flag, since Germany and Italy were not yet at war) and sunk with the loss of 67 men. ''Amalfi''s loss caused the Italians to keep the other armored cruisers at Venice in port for most of the next year before they were eventually relocated. == Design and description == As built, ''Amalfi'' was long overall by abeam, with a draft of . She had twin propeller shafts powered by two vertical triple-expansion steam engines. The steam engines were fed from 22 coal-fired Belleville boilers. The projected output of her power plant was , but in service ''Amalfi'' was able to produce —some less than her sister ship, —which was enough to give a maxiumum speed of .〔 The main armament of the ''Pisa''-class ships consisted of four Cannone da 254/45 V Modello 1906 guns in twin-gun turrets fore and aft of the superstructure. The ships mounted eight Cannone da 190/45 V Modello 1906 in four twin-gun turrets, two in each side amidships, as their secondary armament. For defense against torpedo boats, they carried 16 quick-firing (QF) Cannone da 76/40 V Modello 1908 guns and eight QF Cannone da 47/40 V Modello 1908 guns. They were also equipped with three submerged torpedo tubes. During World War I, ''Pisa''s 76 and 47 mm guns were replaced by twenty 76/40 guns; six of these were anti-aircraft guns.〔 ''Amalfi'' was protected by a main belt of armor thick. The 10-inch gun turrets were protected by of armor plate, and the 7.5-inch gun turrets by . The conning tower had armor thick, while the thickness of the deck armor was 130 millimeters.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Italian cruiser Amalfi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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