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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Brindisi (ex-Helgoland)			Danubius Werft, Fiume, Austria-Hungary	28.10.1911	23.11.1912	29.8.1914 // 19.9.1920	accommodation ship 11.1929
Venezia (ex-Saida)			CNT, Monfalcone, Austria-Hungary	9.9.1911	26.10.1912	1.8.1914 // 19.9.1920	accommodation ship 3.1930

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	3500
Displacement full, t	Brindisi: 4375 Venezia: 4327
Length, m	129.7 wl 130.6 oa
Breadth, m	12.8
Draught, m	5.30 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	Brindisi: 2 AEG steam turbines, 16 Yarrow boilers Venezia: 2 Melms-Pfenniger steam turbines, 16 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	25600
Max speed, kts	27
Fuel, t	coal 800
Endurance, nm(kts)	1600(24)
Armour, mm	belt: 60, deck: 20, shields: 40, CT: 50
Armament	9 x 1 - 100/47 G. L/50 K.11, 1 x 1 - 66/47 G. L/50 BAG, 1 x 1 - 47/40 L/44 S, 3 x 2 - 533 TT
Complement	368

Project history

Ex-Austrian cruisers of Admiral Spaun class. Brindisi was commissioned 7.6.1923 and Venezia 5.7.1921.

Ship protection

60mm belt closed machinery spaces only and was connected with flat 20mm deck by top. Guns had 40mm shields.

Modernizations

1921 - 1922, both: - 1 x 1 - 66/47, 1 x 1 - 47/40, 1 x 2 - 533 TT; + 1 x 1 - 37/43 Vickers 1914, 120 mines

Naval service

 Both were later used as accommodation ships, and sold in March, 1937.