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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Ancona (ex-Graudenz)			KMW Kiel, Germany	1912	25.10.1913	10.8.1914 // 1.6.1920	stricken 3.1937

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	4912
Displacement full, t	6382
Length, m	139.0 wl 142.7 oa
Breadth, m	13.8
Draught, m	6.08 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Marine steam turbines, 12 Marine boilers
Power, h. p.	26000
Max speed, kts	27
Fuel, t	coal 1280 + oil 375
Endurance, nm(kts)	4500(12)
Armour, mm	belt: 60 - 18, shields: 50, deck: 40 - 20 with 60 - 40-mm slopes; CT: 100 sides, 20 roof
Armament	7 x 1 - 149/43 SK L/45 C/09, 2 x 1 - 88/45 SK L/45 C/13, 2 x 1 - 500 TT, 2 - 500 TT sub (beam, 5), 120 mines
Complement	385

Project history

Ex-German cruiser taken over by reparations and commissioned by navy 6.5.1925.

Ship protection

60mm belt protected machinery and magazines (about 80% of ship length), its thickness decreased to 18mm at fwd part, there was 40mm transverse bulkhead between 60mm and 18mm parts of the belt, aft part of waterline was unprotected. 40-20mm armour deck was connected with lower edge of the belt by 60-40mm slopes. Guns were protected by 50mm shields, ammo tubes had 20mm armour.

Modernizations

(1921 - 1924, Arsenale di Taranto): max fuel stowage was increased to 900 t of coal and 1520 t of oil; - 2 x 1 - 88/42, 2 - 500 TT sub; + 3 x 1 - 76/40 Ansaldo 1917, 3 x 1 - 6.5/80, 2 x 1 - 500 TT

1926: + 1 seaplane (M.7)

1929: + 1 catapult

Naval service

No significant events.