in honor of armored cruiser thursday we present the Italian vessel Pisa. armed with a main battery of 10" guns Pisa survived WW1 and was a unit of the Italian Fleet until the mid 1930's. her sister ship Amalfi was sunk in 1916 by the Austro-Hungarian submarine U-26. a third ship named Giorgios Averoff was sold to the Royal Hellenic Navy and still survives as a museum ship in Greece.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Italian armored cruiser Pisa
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