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AMERIGO VESPUCCI steel corvette (1884)

very similar Flavio Gioia 1883

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Amerigo Vespucci     Arsenale di Venezia 9.12.1879 31.7.1882 1.9.1884 TS 1893, discarded 12.1928

 

Displacement normal, t

2493

Displacement full, t

2751

Length, m

78.0 pp 84.5 oa

Breadth, m

12.8

Draught, m

5.48

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 HR, 8 boilers

Power, h. p.

3000

Max speed, kts

13

Fuel, t

coal 500

Endurance, nm(kts) 10000
Armour, mm deck: ?

Armament

8 x 1 - 149/27 B, 3 x 1 - 75/21 Uchatius 29cwt BL No1, 4 x 1 - 11.4/94

Complement

268

Project history: Barque-rigged steel corvette designed by Carlo Vigna.

Ship protection: There was a sloping protective deck and cellular layer.

Modernizations: 1893, new armament consisted of 4 x 1 - 120/40 A91, 4 x 1 - 57/40 H, 2 x 1 - 37/20 H corto, 2 - 350 TT

1910s: new armament consisted of: 4 x 1 - 76/40 A, 2 x 1 - 6.5/115

Naval service: In 1893 Amerigo Vespucci was converted to TS.

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