Italian cruiser Ettore Fieramosca

Ettore Fieramosca, possibly at Algiers
History
Kingdom of Italy
Name	Ettore Fieramosca
Namesake	Ettore Fieramosca
Builder	Cantiere navale fratelli Orlando, Livorno
Laid down	31 December 1885
Launched	30 August 1888
Commissioned	16 November 1889
Stricken	15 July 1909
Fate	Sold for scrap, 1909
General characteristics
Class and type	Etna-class protected cruiser
Displacement	3,538 long tons (3,595 t)
Length	290 ft (88.4 m)
Beam	43 ft 4 in (13.2 m)
Draft	18 ft 9 in (5.7 m)
Installed power	7,000 ihp (5,200 kW) 4 × fire-tube boilers
Propulsion	2 × compound steam engines 2 × screw propellers
Speed	18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Range	5,000 nautical miles (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	17 officers and 298 men
Armament	2 × 254 mm (10 in) guns 6 × 152 mm (6 in) guns 6 × 57 mm (2.24 in) Hotchkiss guns 8 × 37 mm (1.5 in) Hotchkiss guns 4 × 356 mm (14 in) torpedo tubes
Armor	Deck: 38 mm (1.5 in) Conning tower: 13 mm (0.5 in)

Ettore Fieramosca was a protected cruiser of the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) built in the 1880s. She was the fourth and final member of the Etna class, which included three sister ships of slightly smaller dimensions. Named for the condottiero of the same name, she was the only member of her class not named for a volcano.^[1] The ship was laid down in December 1885, launched in August 1888, and was commissioned in November 1889. She was armed with a main battery of two 254 mm (10 in) and a secondary battery of six 152 mm (6 in) guns, and could steam at a speed of around 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph).

Ettore Fieramosca had a relatively uneventful career; her first decade in service was confined to the normal peacetime routine of training with the Italian fleet. She thereafter spent most of her career abroad, including a deployment to China to help suppress the Boxer Uprising in 1900 and tours in African and North American waters in the mid-1900s. She was stricken from the naval register in July 1909 and sold for scrap.