Italian cruiser Libia

Libia was a protected cruiser of the Italian Regia Marina that began as an Ottoman order. She was laid down in 1907 at the Ansaldo shipyard in Genoa as Drama, a ship based on the Ottoman cruiser Hamidiye. When the Ottoman government stopped paying its foreign debts Ansaldo halted work, and Italy seized the ship in the Italo-Turkish War of 1911. She was launched on 11 November 1912 and commissioned on 25 March 1913. About 111.8 metres long, she had two vertical triple-expansion steam engines and sixteen coal-fired Niclausse boilers, which gave 22.9 knots, and carried two 152 mm and eight 120 mm guns. Her service was quiet: she helped evacuate Prince William of Albania in 1914, patrolled the Otranto Barrage, toured the world in 1921 to 1922, served in China from 1925, and was stricken and sold for scrap in 1937.