Italian cruiser Varese

Varese in October 1904
History
Kingdom of Italy
Name	Varese
Namesake	Battle of Varese
Builder	Cantiere navale fratelli Orlando, Livorno
Laid down	21 April 1898
Launched	6 August 1899
Completed	5 April 1901
Reclassified	As training ship, 1920
Stricken	4 January 1923
General characteristics
Class and type	Giuseppe Garibaldi-class armored cruiser
Displacement	7,350 metric tons (7,234 long tons)
Length	111.8 m (366 ft 10 in)
Beam	18.2 m (59 ft 9 in)
Draft	7.3 m (23 ft 11 in)
Installed power	13,500 ihp (10,100 kW) 24 Belleville boilers
Propulsion	2 Shafts 2 Vertical triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Range	5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	555 officers and enlisted men (578 as flagship)
Armament	1 × single 254 mm (10 in) gun 1 × twin 203 mm (8 in) guns 14 × single 152 mm (6 in) guns 10 × single 76 mm (3 in) guns 6 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 4 × single 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes
Armor	Belt: 80–150 mm (3.1–5.9 in) Deck: 38 mm (1.5 in) Gun turrets: 150 mm Conning tower: 150 mm Gun shields: 50 mm (2.0 in)

Varese was a Giuseppe Garibaldi-class armored cruiser built for the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) in the 1890s. The ship made several deployments to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant before the start of the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–12. She supported ground forces in the occupations of Tripoli and Homs in Libya. Varese may have bombarded Beirut and did bombard the defenses of the Dardanelles during the war. She also provided naval gunfire support for the Italian Army in Libya. During World War I, the ship's activities were limited by the threat of Austro-Hungarian submarines and Varese became a training ship in 1920. She was struck from the naval register in 1923 and subsequently scrapped.