Italian cruiser Pisa

Pisa, February 1932
History
Kingdom of Italy
Name	Pisa
Namesake	Pisa
Builder	Cantiere navale fratelli Orlando, Livorno
Laid down	20 February 1905
Launched	15 September 1907
Completed	1 September 1909
Decommissioned	28 April 1937
Reclassified	Coastal battleship, 1 July 1921
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type	Pisa-class armored cruiser
Displacement	9,832 t (9,677 long tons)
Length	130 m (426 ft 6 in) (pp) 140.5 m (460 ft 11 in) (oa)
Beam	21 m (68 ft 11 in)
Draft	7.1 m (23 ft 4 in)
Installed power	20,000 ihp (15,000 kW) 22 × Belleville boilers
Propulsion	2 × propeller shafts 2 × vertical triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph)
Endurance	2,500 nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Armament	2 × twin 254 mm (10.0 in)/45 guns 4 × twin 190 mm (7.5 in)/45 guns 16 × single 76 mm (3.0 in) guns 8 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 3 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes
Armor	Belt: 200 mm (7.9 in) Deck: 51 mm (2.0 in) Conning tower: 180 mm (7.1 in) 254 mm gun turrets: 160 mm (6.3 in) 190 mm gun turrets: 140 mm (5.5 in)

The Italian cruiser Pisa was the name ship of her class of two armored cruisers built for the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) in the first decade of the 20th century. The ship participated in the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–1912, during which she supported the occupations of Tobruk, Libya and several islands in the Dodecanese and bombarded the fortifications defending the entrance to the Dardanelles. During World War I, Pisa's activities were limited by the threat of Austro-Hungarian submarines, although the ship did participate in the bombardment of Durazzo, Albania in late 1918. After the war she became a training ship and was stricken from the Navy List in 1937 before being scrapped.