![]() Bartolomeo Colleoni passing through the Suez Canal in 1935
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Name | Bartolomeo Colleoni |
Namesake | Bartolomeo Colleoni |
Ordered | 1926 |
Builder | Ansaldo, Genoa |
Laid down | 21 June 1928 |
Launched | 21 December 1930 |
Commissioned | 10 February 1932 |
Fate | Sunk by HMAS Sydney and others at the Battle of Cape Spada, 19 July 1940 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Giussano-class cruiser |
Displacement | |
Length | 169.3 m (555 ft 5 in) (loa) |
Beam | 15.5 m (50 ft 10 in) |
Draft | 5.3 m (17 ft 5 in) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 36.5 knots (67.6 km/h; 42.0 mph) |
Complement | 520 |
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Armor | |
Aircraft carried | 2 × seaplanes |
Aviation facilities | 1 × catapult launcher |
Bartolomeo Colleoni was an Italian Giussano-class light cruiser, that served in the Regia Marina (Royal Navy) during World War II. She was named after Bartolomeo Colleoni, an Italian military leader of the 15th century.
She was sunk at the Battle of Cape Spada early in the war.