Regia Marina — Cruiser class
Pillau-class cruiser
The class in numbers
- 2 Planned
- 2 Completed
- 2 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- Regia Marina
- Built
- 1913–1915
- In commission
- 1914–1943
- Preceded by
- Graudenz-class cruiser
- Succeeded by
- Wiesbaden-class cruiser
- Builders
- Schichau, Danzig
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 4,321 long tons (4,390 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 5,169 long tons (5,252 t)
- Length
- 135.3 m (443.9 ft)
- Speed
- 27.5 knots (50.9 km/h, 31.6 mph)
- Complement
- 442
- Main gun
- 150 mm (5.9 in)
- Armament
- 8 × 15 cm SK L/45 guns
- 2 × 8.8 cm SK L/45 guns
- 2 × 50 cm torpedo tubes
- 120 mines
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italian cruiser Bari | 1914 | Scrapped 1943 | |
| SMS Pillau | 1914 | Scrapped 1943 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Pillau-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.