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Name: PIEMONTE
Type: Cruiser
Keel: 12/02/1887
Launched: 23/08/1888
Completed: 08/08/1889
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard: Elswick
Yard Number: 510
Dimensions: 2639disp, 300.0 x 38.2 x 16.7(draft)ft;
(1920: 1758grt, 1218nrt, 313.4, 38.2 x 21.8ft)
Engines: 2 x T3cyl (36, 55 & 60, 60 x 27ins), 12700ihp;
(1905: 2 x T3cyl (19.5, 36 & 55 x 27ins), 315nhp)
Engines by: Humphrey & Tennant, London
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 22.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 6 x 1 x 6.0ins, 6 x 1 x 4.7ins guns; 3 x 14.0ins torpedoes
History:
08/08/1889 Italian Navy
1921 SA La Petrolifera Italo Rumena, La Spezia; renamed EDDA
1924 SA Maris, Genoa; renamed MARISEDDA
1925 Maris Cia di Nav SA, Genoa
by 1930 Scopinich & Monta, Genoa
07/01/1932 Broken up
Comments: 1905: Re-engined by Humphrey & Tennant
1920: Converted to a tanker
07/01/1932: Broken up at Savona


Above photo from an 1898 copy of the Navy and Army Illustrated, courtesy of Kevin Blair

Above photo courtesy of Giorgio Pargoi

Above photo as MARISEDDA courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as MARISEDDA courtesy of Photoship