 Carlo Alberto at anchor
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| Class overview | |
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| Name | Vettor Pisani |
| Operators |  Regia Marina |
| Preceded by | Marco Polo |
| Succeeded by | Giuseppe Garibaldi class |
| Built | 1892–99 |
| In commission | 1898–1920 |
| Completed | 2 |
| Scrapped | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Armored cruiser |
| Displacement | 6,397–6,614 t (6,296–6,510 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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| Armor |
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The Vettor Pisani class consisted of two armoured cruisers built for the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) in the 1890s. The two ships of the class, Vettor Pisani and Carlo Alberto, were frequently deployed overseas during their careers. The former served in the Far East during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 while the latter was involved in pioneering long-range radio experiments several years later before deploying to South American waters. Carlo Alberto then served as a training ship for several years. Both ships participated in the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–12 and played minor roles in World War I, during which time Carlo Alberto was converted into a troop transport and Vettor Pisani into a repair ship. They were both discarded in 1920 and subsequently scrapped.