Italian cruiser Luigi di Savoia Duca degli Abruzzi
Service
- as Luigi di Savoia Duca Degli Abruzzi1 December 1937 — January 19612,193 days of the war
- Name
- Luigi di Savoia Duca degli Abruzzi
- Namesake
- Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi
- Builder
- O.T.O., La Spezia
- Laid down
- 28 December 1933
- Launched
- 21 April 1936
- Commissioned
- 1 December 1937
- Decommissioned
- January 1961
- Fate
- Scrapped 1972 (1972)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 11,350 long tons (11,532 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 11,735 long tons (11,923 t)
- Length
- 187 m (613.5 ft)
- Beam
- 18.9 m (62 ft)
- Draught
- 6.9 m (22.6 ft)
- Speed
- 34 knots (63 km/h, 39.1 mph)
- Range
- 4,125 nmi (7,640 km)
- Complement
- 640
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
Luigi di Savoia Duca degli Abruzzi was a Duca degli Abruzzi-class cruiser built for the Regia Marina. The ship was named after Prince Luigi Amedeo. Her keel was laid at O.T.O., La Spezia on 28 December 1933. She entered service on 1 December 1937, having been launched on 21 April 1936.
Two ships of the class were built.
She displaced 11,350 long tons standard and 11,735 long tons at full load. She measured 187 m (614 ft) long with a beam of 18.9 m (62 ft). Her designed speed was 34 knots, and she carried a complement of 640.
Her main battery was ten 152 mm (6.0 in) guns. Her belt armour was 30 mm (1.2 in) and her deck 40 mm. She carried four aircraft.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in January 1961.
She was broken up for scrap in 1972.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 6 boilers
- 2 shafts
- 100000 hp
- Armament
- 10 × 152 mm / 55 caliber (6 in)
- 8 × 100 mm / 47 caliber guns
- 8 × 37 mm 54-cal. guns
- 12 × 20 mm/65 caliber
- 6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes
- 2 × anti-submarines mortars
- Armour
- Outer Belt: 30 mm
- Inner Belt: 100 mm
- Main Deck: 40 mm
- Upper Deck: 10 - 15 mm
- Turrets: 135 mm
- Barbettes: 30 - 100 mm
- Outer Bulkheads: 30 mm
- Inner Bulkheads: 100 mm
- Conning Tower: 30 - 140 mm
- Aircraft
- 4 × Ro.43
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Italian cruiser Luigi di Savoia Duca degli Abruzzi on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Marina Militare website — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons