&sq=&lang=&file=File:Italian_corvette_Cristoforo_Colombo.jpg) Cristoforo Colombo in 1896
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Cristoforo Colombo |
| Builders | Venice Naval Yard |
| Operators | Regia Marina (Royal Navy) |
| Preceded by | Amerigo Vespucci |
| Succeeded by | None |
| Completed | 1 |
| History | |
| Name | Cristoforo Colombo |
| Builder | Venice Naval yard |
| Laid down | 1 September 1890 |
| Launched | 24 September 1892 |
| Completed | 16 October 1894 |
| Fate | Discarded 10 March 1907 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Screw corvette |
| Displacement | Full load: 2,713 long tons (2,757 t) |
| Length | 76.4 meters (251 ft) pp |
| Beam | 11.3 m (37 ft) |
| Draft | 5.69 m (18.7 ft) |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion | 1 shaft reciprocating |
| Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Complement | 238 |
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Cristoforo Colombo was a steel-hulled corvette built in the early 1890s for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy). The ship was built as a replacement for an earlier vessel of the same name, based on a nearly identical design. The new ship was intended to serve in Italy's colonial empire in eastern Africa, and was designed to be able to operate at long range, far from home ports, for an extended period of time.
The Regia Marina ultimately sold the ship in March 1907, though her ultimate fate is unknown.