Italian cruiser Francesco Ferruccio

Francesco Ferruccio's sister ship Giuseppe Garibaldi underway before 1915
History
Regia MarinaKingdom of Italy
Name:	Francesco Ferruccio
Namesake:	Francesco Ferruccio
Builder:	Venice Naval Dockyard
Laid down:	19 August 1899
Launched:	23 April 1902
Christened:	Duchess of Genoa
Completed:	1 September 1905
Reclassified:	As training ship, 1919
Struck:	1 April 1930
Motto:	"Let us go where our fortune and that of our country call us"
General characteristics
Class and type:	Giuseppe Garibaldi-class armored cruiser
Displacement:	7,350 metric tons (7,234 long tons)
Length:	111.8 m (366 ft 10 in)
Beam:	18.2 m (59 ft 9 in)
Draft:	7.3 m (23 ft 11 in)
Installed power:	14,000 ihp (10,000 kW) 24 Belleville boilers
Propulsion:	2 Shafts 2 Vertical triple-expansion steam engines
Speed:	19–20 knots (35–37 km/h; 22–23 mph)
Range:	5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	555 officers and enlisted men (578 as flagship)
Armament:	1 × single 254 mm (10 in) gun 1 × twin 203 mm (8 in) guns 14 × single 152 mm (6 in) guns 10 × single 76 mm (3 in) guns 6 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 4 × single 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes
Armor:	Belt: 80–150 mm (3.1–5.9 in) Deck: 38 mm (1.5 in) Gun turrets: 150 mm Conning tower: 150 mm Gun shields: 50 mm (2.0 in)

Francesco Ferruccio was a Giuseppe Garibaldi-class armored cruiser built for the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) in the first decade of the 20th century. The ship made several deployments to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant during her career. At the beginning of the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–12 she bombarded Tripoli and then Beirut in early 1912 before being transferred to Libya. During World War I, Francesco Ferruccio's activities were limited by the threat of Austro-Hungarian submarines and she became a training ship in 1919. The ship was struck from the naval register in 1930 and subsequently scrapped.

Francesco Ferruccio had an overall length of 111.8 meters (366 ft 10 in), a beam of 18.2 meters (59 ft 9 in) and a deep draft (ship) of 7.3 meters (23 ft 11 in). She displaced 7,350 metric tons (7,230 long tons) at normal load. The ship was powered by two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft, using steam from 24 coal-fired Belleville boilers. The engines produced 14,000 indicated horsepower (10,000 kW) and gave a speed of approximately 19–20 knots (35–37 km/h; 22–23 mph). She had a cruising range of 5,500 nautical miles (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph). Her complement ordinarily consisted of 555 officers and enlisted men and 578 when acting as a flagship.