Italian cruiser Guglielmo Pepe

Guglielmo Pepe was an Italian scout cruiser of the Alessandro Poerio class, named for a Neapolitan light cavalryman who helped defend Venice against the Austrians. The Gio. Ansaldo & C. yard at Sestri Ponente laid her down on 2 July 1913, launched her on 17 September 1914 and commissioned her on 20 August 1915. Three Yarrow boilers fed two groups of Belluzzo steam turbines of 24,000 horsepower driving two three-bladed propellers, and she displaced 891 tons standard and 1,270 tons at full load. In the First World War she served in the Adriatic campaign, often supporting raids by Italian motor torpedo boats. The Regia Marina reclassified her as a destroyer in 1921 because of her light displacement. Fascist Italy sold her in 1937 to the Spanish Nationalists, who renamed her Teruel and kept her in service until she was stricken in 1948.