Italian cruiser Luigi Cadorna
Service
- as Luigi Cadorna11 August 1933 — May 19512,193 days of the war
- Name
- Luigi Cadorna
- Builder
- C.R.D.A., Trieste
- Ordered
- 29 October 1929
- Laid down
- 19 September 1930
- Launched
- 30 September 1931
- Commissioned
- 11 August 1933
- Struck
- May 1951
- Fate
- Scrapped, 1951 (1951)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 5,239 long tons (5,323 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 7,001 long tons (7,113 t)
- Length
- 169.3 m (555.4 ft)
- Beam
- 15.5 m (50.9 ft)
- Draught
- 5.2 m (17.1 ft)
- Speed
- 37 knots (68.5 km/h, 42.6 mph)
- Range
- 2,930 nmi (5,426 km)
- Complement
- 507
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
Luigi Cadorna was a Condottieri-class cruiser of the Regia Marina. C.R.D.A., Trieste laid her keel on 19 September 1930. Launched on 30 September 1931, she entered service on 11 August 1933.
She was one of six ships of her class.
She displaced 5,239 long tons standard and 7,001 long tons at full load. She measured 169.3 m (555 ft) long with a beam of 15.5 m (51 ft). Her designed speed was 37 knots, and she carried a complement of 507.
Her main battery was eight 152 mm (6.0 in) guns. Her belt armour was 24 mm (0.9 in) and her deck 20 mm. She carried two aircraft.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register in May 1951.
She was broken up for scrap in 1951.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 Parsons geared turbines
- 6 Yarrow boilers
- 95000 hp
- Armament
- 8 × 152 mm /53 guns (4×2)
- 6 × 100 mm / 47 caliber guns (3×2)
- 2 × 37 mm/54 guns (2×1)
- 8 × 13.2 mm guns (4×2)
- 4 × 533 mm torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Deck: 20 mm
- Main belt: 24 mm
- Turrets: 23 mm
- Aircraft
- 2 aircraft
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Italian cruiser Luigi Cadorna on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — Official U.S. Navy photo NH 111471 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons