Italian cruiser Marsala

	Illustration of Marsala
History
Italy
Builder	Regio Cantiere di Castellammare di Stabia
Laid down	15 February 1911
Launched	24 March 1912
Commissioned	4 August 1914
Stricken	27 November 1927
Fate	Scrapped, 1927
General characteristics
Class and type	Nino Bixio class
Displacement	Normal: 3,575 long tons (3,632 t); Full load: 4,141 long tons (4,207 t);
Length	140.3 m (460 ft 4 in)
Beam	13 m (42 ft 8 in)
Draft	4.1 m (13 ft 5 in)
Installed power	14 × Blechynden boilers; 23,000 shp (17,000 kW);
Propulsion	3 × steam turbines; 3 × screw propellers;
Speed	27.66 knots (51.23 km/h; 31.83 mph)
Range	1,400 nmi (2,600 km; 1,600 mi) at 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement	13 officers; 283 enlisted men;
Armament	6 × 120 mm (4.7 in) guns; 6 × 76 mm (3 in) guns; 2 × 450 mm (17.7 in)} torpedo tubes; 200 naval mines;
Armor	Deck: 38 mm (1.5 in); Conning tower: 100 mm (3.9 in);

Marsala was a protected cruiser built by the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in the 1910s. She was the second and final member of the Nino Bixio class, which were built as scouts for the main Italian fleet. She was equipped with a main battery of six 120-millimeter (4.7 in) guns and had a top speed in excess of 26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph), but her engines proved to be troublesome in service. Marsala spent World War I based at Brindisi; she was involved in the Battle of the Otranto Straits in May 1917, where she briefly engaged Austro-Hungarian cruisers. Marsala's career was cut short in November 1927 when she was stricken from the naval register and sold for scrap, the result of her unreliable engines and drastic cuts to the naval budget.

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