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The Italian cruiser ''Pisa'' was the name ship of her class of two armored cruisers built for the Royal Italian Navy (''Regia Marina'') in the first decade of the 20th century. The ship participated in the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–12, during which she supported the occupations of Tobruk, Libya and several islands in the Dodecanese and bombarded the fortifications defending the entrance to the Dardanelles. During World War I, ''Pisa''s activities were limited by the threat of Austro-Hungarian submarines, although the ship did participate in the bombardment of Durazzo, Albania in late 1918. After the war she became a training ship and was stricken from the Navy List in 1937 before being scrapped. ==Design and description== ''Pisa'' 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.〔Gardiner & Gray, p. 261〕 The ''Pisa''-class ships had a complement of 32 officers and 652 to 655 enlisted men.〔Fraccaroli, p. 32〕 The ship was powered by two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam supplied by 22 Belleville boilers. Designed for a maximum output of and a speed of ,〔Silverstone, p. 290〕 ''Pisa'' handily exceeded this, reaching a speed of during her sea trials from . She had a cruising range of about at a 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, the ships 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, her 76 and 47 mm guns were replaced by twenty 76/40 guns; six of these were anti-aircraft guns.〔 ''Pisa'' was protected by an armored belt that was thick amidships and reduced to at the bow and stern.〔 The armored deck was thick. The conning tower armor was thick. The 254 mm gun turrets were protected by of armour while the 190 mm turrets had .〔 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 Pisa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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