 Vettor Pisani at anchor
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| History | |
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 Kingdom of Italy | |
| Name | Vettor Pisani |
| Namesake | Vettor Pisani |
| Builder | Regio Cantieri di Castellammare di Stabia, Castellammare di Stabia |
| Laid down | 7 December 1892 |
| Launched | 14 August 1895 |
| Completed | 1 April 1899 |
| Stricken | 2 January 1920 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 1920 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Vettor Pisani-class armored cruiser |
| Displacement | 6,614 t (6,510 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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The Italian cruiser Vettor Pisani was the name ship of her class of two armored cruisers built for the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) in the 1890s. She often served as a flagship during her career and frequently served overseas. On one of these deployments, the ship received a radio message from Peking, one of the first long-range radio transmissions to a ship. Vettor Pisani participated in the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 and the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–12, during which her admiral nearly caused a diplomatic incident with the Austro-Hungarian Empire. During World War I, her activities were limited by the threat of Austro-Hungarian submarines and she was converted into a repair ship in 1916. Vettor Pisani was stricken from the Navy List in 1920 and scrapped later that year.