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''Libia'' was a protected cruiser built in Italy in the 1900s. The ship had originally been laid down in 1907 for the Ottoman Navy and was to have been named ''Drama'', and was based on the Ottoman cruiser . She had not been completed by the outbreak of the Italo-Turkish War in 1911 and so she was seized by the Italian ''Regia Marina'' (Royal Navy) and was completed in 1913. The ship was armed with two and eight guns, and was capable of a top speed of over . ''Libia'' had a relatively uneventful career. Before Italy's entry into World War I, she was involved in the evacuation of Prince William, the ruler of Albania, from Durazzo in late 1914. Following Italy's declaration of war in May 1915, ''Libia'' patrolled the Otranto Barrage but did not see action. In 1921–22, she went on a world tour, during which she was featured in a short documentary produced by the then-unknown Frank Capra. In 1925 she was deployed to China, where she remained for nearly a decade. In 1937, the old cruiser was stricken from the naval register and sold for scrap. ==Design== The design for the new cruiser was based on the British-built Ottoman cruiser . The ship was long at the waterline and long overall. She had a beam of and a draft of . She displaced standard and up to at full load. The ship was fitted with two pole masts. She had a crew of 14 officers and 300 enlisted men. The ship was protected by an armored deck that was thick, and the conning tower had the same thickness of armor plating on the sides. The main guns were protected by thick gun shields.〔 ''Libia'' was powered by two-shaft vertical triple-expansion engines. Steam for the engines was provided by sixteen coal-fired Niclausse water-tube boilers that were trunked into three closely spaced funnels on the centerline. The engines were rated at , though they only reached in service. This was sufficient to propel the ship at a top speed of . ''Libia'' had a cruising radius of at a speed of .〔 The ship was armed with a main battery of two L/50 quick-firing guns, one forward and one astern.〔 These guns were probably Pattern FF Armstrong guns, which fired a shell at a muzzle velocity of .〔Friedman, p. 96〕 These were augmented by a battery of eight L/45 guns, four mounted individually on each broadside. Close-range defense against torpedo boats was provided by a battery of eight L/50 guns and six L/20 guns. She was also equipped with four torpedo tubes.〔 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 Libia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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