 Carlo Alberto at anchor
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| History | |
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 Kingdom of Italy | |
| Name | Carlo Alberto |
| Namesake | Charles Albert of Sardinia |
| Builder | Arsenale di La Spezia, La Spezia |
| Laid down | 1 February 1892 |
| Launched | 23 September 1896 |
| Completed | 1 May 1898 |
| Renamed | Zenson, 4 April 1918 |
| Reclassified | Troop transport, 4 April 1918 |
| Stricken | 12 June 1920 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 1920 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Armored cruiser |
| Displacement | 6,397 t (6,296 long tons) |
| Length | 105.7 m (346 ft 9 in) (o/a) |
| Beam | 18.04 m (59 ft 2 in) |
| Draft | 7.2 m (23 ft 7 in) |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 vertical triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
| Range | 5,400 nmi (10,000 km; 6,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 500–504 |
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Carlo Alberto was the second of two Vettor Pisani-class armored cruisers built for the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) in the 1890s. She was deployed overseas several times during her career, notably to the Far East and South America. The ship was used as a royal yacht by King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy in 1902, during which time she was used for radio experiments by Guglielmo Marconi. Carlo Alberto served as a training ship before the start of the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–12. During the war she supported Italian operations in Libya. The ship was virtually inactive during World War I and was converted into a troop transport in 1917–18. Carlo Alberto was stricken from the Navy List in 1920 and subsequently broken up for scrap.