Italian cruiser Alessandro Poerio

Alessandro Poerio was an Italian light scout cruiser, the lead ship of her class, laid down by Ansaldo at Sestri Ponente near Genoa on 25 June 1913, launched on 4 August 1914 and commissioned on 25 May 1915. She was about 85 metres long, with three Yarrow water-tube boilers feeding two groups of Belluzzo steam turbines rated at 24,000 horsepower, and could keep over 30 knots while launching torpedoes. She entered service with six 102 mm guns, four 450 mm torpedo tubes and a capacity for 42 mines. In the First World War she took part in 66 operations in the Adriatic, often supporting raids by motor torpedo boats. She was reclassified as a destroyer in 1921 and sold to the Spanish Nationalists in 1937, serving as Huesca until she was stricken in 1953.