NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Amerigo Vespucci			Arsenale di Venezia	9.12.1879	31.7.1882	1.9.1884	TS 1893, discarded 12.1928

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	2493
Displacement full, t	2751
Length, m	78.0 pp 84.5 oa
Breadth, m	12.8
Draught, m	5.48
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 HR, 8 boilers
Power, h. p.	3000
Max speed, kts	13
Fuel, t	coal 500
Endurance, nm(kts)	10000
Armour, mm	deck:?
Armament	8 x 1 - 149/27 B, 3 x 1 - 75/21 Uchatius 29cwt BL No1, 4 x 1 - 11.4/94
Complement	268

Standard scale images

Project history

Barque-rigged steel corvette designed by Carlo Vigna.

Ship protection

There was a sloping protective deck and cellular layer.

Modernizations

1893, new armament consisted of 4 x 1 - 120/40 A91, 4 x 1 - 57/40 H, 2 x 1 - 37/20 H corto, 2 - 350 TT

1910s: new armament consisted of: 4 x 1 - 76/40 A, 2 x 1 - 6.5/115

Naval service

In 1893 Amerigo Vespucci was converted to TS.