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The Italian cruiser ''Carlo Alberto'' was the second of two armored cruisers built for the Royal Italian Navy (''Regia Marina'') in the 1890s. She was deployed overseas several times during her career, notably to the Far East and South America. The ship was used as a royal yacht by King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy in 1902, during which time she was used for radio experiments by Guglielmo Marconi. ''Carlo Alberto'' served as a training ship before the start of the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–12. During the war she supported Italian operations in Libya. The ship was virtually inactive during World War I and was converted into a troop transport in 1917–18. ''Carlo Alberto'' was stricken from the Navy List in 1920 and subsequently broken up for scrap. ==Design and description== ''Carlo Alberto'' had a length between perpendiculars of and an overall length of . She had a beam of and a draft of . The ship displaced at normal load, and at deep load. The ''Vettor Pisani''-class ships had a complement of 28 officers and 472 to 476 enlisted men. The ship was powered by two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one propeller shaft. Steam for the engines was supplied by eight Scotch marine boilers. Designed for a maximum output of and a speed of ,〔Silverstone, p. 286〕 ''Carlo Alberto'' barely exceeded her designed speed when she reached during her sea trials from . She had a cruising radius of about at a speed of . The main armament of the ''Vettor Pisani''-class ships consisted of twelve quick-firing (QF) Cannone da 152/40 A Modello 1891 guns in single mounts. All of these guns were mounted on the broadside, eight on the upper deck and four at the corners of the central citadel in armored casemates. Single QF Cannone da 120/40 A Modello 1891 guns were mounted in the bow and stern and the remaining two guns were positioned on the main deck between the guns. For defense against torpedo boats, the ship carried fourteen QF guns and eight QF Hotchkiss guns. The ship was also equipped with four torpedo tubes. ''Carlo Alberto'' was protected by an armored belt that was thick amidships and reduced to at the bow and stern.〔 The upper strake of armor was also 15 cm thick and protected just the middle of the ship, up to the height of the upper deck. The curved armored deck was 3.7 cm thick. The conning tower armor was also 15 cm thick and each 15.2 cm gun was protected by a gun shield. 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 Carlo Alberto」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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