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GIOVANNI BAUSAN protected cruiser (1885)


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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, mmcompound; 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



Standard scale images


<i>Giovanni Bausan</i> 1885
Giovanni Bausan 1885


Graphics


<i>Giovanni Bausan </i>1889
Giovanni Bausan 1889


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.