 Aretusa in 1895
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| History | |
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 Italy | |
| Name | Aretusa |
| Namesake | Arethusa |
| Builder | Cantiere navale fratelli Orlando, Livorno |
| Laid down | 1 June 1889 |
| Launched | 14 March 1891 |
| Commissioned | 1 September 1892 |
| Fate | Discarded December 1912 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Partenope-class torpedo cruiser |
| Displacement | Normal: 833 long tons (846 t) |
| Length | 73.1 m (239 ft 10 in) |
| Beam | 8.22 m (27 ft) |
| Draft | 3.48 m (11 ft 5 in) |
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| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 18.1 to 20.8 knots (33.5 to 38.5 km/h; 20.8 to 23.9 mph) |
| Range | 1,800 nautical miles (3,300 km; 2,100 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 96–121 |
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Aretusa was a torpedo cruiser of the Partenope class built for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in the 1880s. Laid down in June 1889 at the Cantiere navale fratelli Orlando shipyard, she was launched in March 1891 and was commissioned in September 1892. Her main armament were her six torpedo tubes, which were supported by a battery of ten small-caliber guns. Aretusa spent most of her career in the main Italian fleet, where she was primarily occupied with training exercises. At the start of the Italo-Turkish War in September 1911, she was assigned to the Red Sea Squadron in Italian Eritrea. She bombarded Ottoman positions in the Arabian Peninsula and took part in a blockade of the coast. Worn out by the end of the war in October 1912, Aretusa was sold for scrap that December and broken up.