Italian cruiser Cesare Rossarol

Cesare Rossarol was an Italian light scout cruiser, one of three sister ships of the Alessandro Poerio class built for the Regia Marina before the First World War. The Gio. Ansaldo & C. yard at Sestri Ponente laid her down on 30 June 1913, launched her on 15 August 1914 and delivered her on 1 August 1915. She was 85 metres long and 8 metres in beam, with a normal displacement of 891 tons and 1,270 tons at full load. Three-drum Yarrow boilers fed two groups of Belluzzo steam turbines rated at 24,000 horsepower, enough to keep her above 30 knots while launching torpedoes. After training at La Spezia she was based at Taranto with the 2nd Scouting Group and worked in the southern Adriatic, escorting small torpedo craft on raids. She was sunk in 1918, and her wreck lies in 49 metres of water off Ližnjan.