 Calabria photographed soon after completion
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| Class overview | |
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| Preceded by | Regioni class |
| Succeeded by | Libia |
| History | |
 Kingdom of Italy | |
| Builder | Arsenale di La Spezia |
| Laid down | February 1892 |
| Launched | 20 September 1894 |
| Commissioned | 12 July 1897 |
| Fate | Sold for scrapping, 13 November 1924 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Protected cruiser |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 81 m (265 ft 9 in) |
| Beam | 12.71 m (41 ft 8 in) |
| Draft | 5.05 m (16 ft 7 in) |
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| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 16.4 knots (30.4 km/h; 18.9 mph) |
| Range | 2,500 nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 214–254 |
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Calabria was a small protected cruiser built for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in the 1890s, intended for service in Italy's overseas empire. She was laid down in 1892, launched in 1894, and completed in 1897, and was armed with a main battery of four 15-centimeter (5.9 in) and four 12 cm (4.7 in) guns. Calabria spent significant periods abroad, ranging from deployments to Chinese, North American, and Australian waters, in addition to periods in Italy's East African empire. She saw action during the Italo-Turkish War in 1912 in the Red Sea, primarily bombarding Turkish ports in the area. Calabria was reclassified as a gunboat in 1921, reduced to a training ship in 1924, and sold for scrap at the end of the year.