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Carlo Alberto

Post by shipstamps » Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:53 pm


The Carlo Alberto was an armoured cruiser built for the Italian Navy at Spezia in 1896. She was a steel-hulled ship of 6,500 tons displacement. Complement 500. Length (pp.) 324% ft., beam 59 ft., maximum draft 243/4ft. Guns: Twelve 6-in 40 cal.; Six 4.7-in., 40 ca. Fourteen 6-pdr. Two 1-pdr. Four torpedo tubes (above water). Her machinery consisted of two sets of 3-cylinder triple-expansion engines.Twin screws. Eight cylindrical boilers, designed horse power, 8,600. Speed 17 knots She carried a normal bunkerage of 600 tons of coal, with a maximum of 1,000 tons and fuel. Speed on trials was 17.7 knots. Her engines were built by Ansaldo.
In the book Wireless at Sea — the first fifty years" a biography of Marconi International Marine Com¬munications Ltd. it is stated:"The Marcheso Luigi Slari an early friend and collaborator of Marconi, has recalled that he and Marconi were on board the Carlo Alberto when that Italian cruiser was at St. Petersburg in July 1902, on the occasion of the visit paid by the King of Italy to the Czar of Russia. . ."
Marconi had established for the first time wireless communication between Russia and Britian (Poldhu). The Russian inventor Popoff visited the Carlo Alberto to pay tribute to Marconi. Shaking him by the hand, Popoff said "I should like to greet the father of wireless telegraphy."
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Re: Carlo Alberto

Post by aukepalmhof » Mon Jul 22, 2019 2:29 am

Built as armoured cruiser by Arsenale di La Spezia, La Spezia for the Italian Navy.
01 February 1892 laid down.
23 September 1896 launched as the CARLO ALBERTO.
01 May 1896 commissioned.
More on her is given by Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_c ... lo_Alberto
1917 Converted in troop transport and renamed in 1918 in ZENSON.
1920 Stricken and sold for scrap.
https://www.miramarshipindex.nz
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