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Giovanni Bausan 1889

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Giovanni Bausan			Armstrong, Elswick, UK	21.8.1882	15.12.1883	9.5.1885	depot ship 7.1916

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	3079
Displacement full, t	3277
Length, m	84.1 pp 89.3 oa
Breadth, m	12.9
Draught, m	5.98
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VDE, 4 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	6470
Max speed, kts	17.4
Fuel, t	coal 560
Endurance, nm(kts)	5000(10)
Armour, mm	compound; deck: 38, CT: 13
Armament	2 x 1 - 254/30 B, 6 x 1 - 152/33 A, 4 x 1 - 57/40 H, 3 x 1 - 37/20 H corto, 6 x 5 - 37/20 H corto, 2 x 1 - 11.4/94, 2 - 350 TT (beam)
Complement	295

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Project history

This vessel, the first torpedo ram of the Italian Navy, was designed by George Rendel and was officially classed as an ariete-torpediniere. She was steel-hulled and was originally provided with a 2-masted fore and aft rig.

Ship protection

There was thin sloping protective deck.

Modernizations

1899: - 6 x 1 - 152/33; + 6 x 1 - 152/40 A91

1915: - 2 x 1 - 254/30, 2 x 1 - 152/40

Naval service

After 1913 Giovanni Bausan was employed as a distilling ship at Tobruk, and later also as a headquarters for the Tobruk Naval Commander. In 1915 she was partly disarmed, and later disarmed totally. From 1.7.1916 she was a submarine depot ship at Brindisi. She was discarded in January 1920 and sold for scrap in March 1920.