Italian cruiser Calabria

	Calabria photographed soon after completion
Class overview
Preceded by	Regioni class
Succeeded by	Libia
History
Kingdom of Italy
Builder	Arsenale di La Spezia
Laid down	February 1892
Launched	20 September 1894
Commissioned	12 July 1897
Fate	Sold for scrapping, 13 November 1924
General characteristics
Type	Protected cruiser
Displacement	Normal: 2,453 long tons (2,492 t); Full load: 2,660 long tons (2,700 t);
Length	81 m (265 ft 9 in)
Beam	12.71 m (41 ft 8 in)
Draft	5.05 m (16 ft 7 in)
Installed power	4 × fire-tube boilers; 4,260 ihp (3,180 kW);
Propulsion	2 × triple-expansion steam engines; 2 × screw propellers;
Speed	16.4 knots (30.4 km/h; 18.9 mph)
Range	2,500 nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	214–254
Armament	4 × 15 cm (5.9 in) guns; 4 × 12 cm (4.7 in) guns; 8 × 5.7 cm (2.2 in) guns; 8 × 3.7 cm (1.5 in) guns; 2 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes;
Armor	Deck: 50 mm (2 in); Conning tower: 50 mm;

Calabria was a small protected cruiser built for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in the 1890s, intended for service in Italy's overseas empire. She was laid down in 1892, launched in 1894, and completed in 1897, and was armed with a main battery of four 15-centimeter (5.9 in) and four 12 cm (4.7 in) guns. Calabria spent significant periods abroad, ranging from deployments to Chinese, North American, and Australian waters, in addition to periods in Italy's East African empire. She saw action during the Italo-Turkish War in 1912 in the Red Sea, primarily bombarding Turkish ports in the area. Calabria was reclassified as a gunboat in 1921, reduced to a training ship in 1924, and sold for scrap at the end of the year.

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