Italian cruiser Liguria

Liguria was a protected cruiser of the Italian Regia Marina, the fourth of the six Regioni-class cruisers, each of which was named for a region of Italy. The Ansaldo shipyard in Genoa laid her keel on 1 July 1889, launched her on 8 June 1893 and she joined the fleet on 1 December 1894, after tight naval budgets had slowed the work. She was about 84.8 metres long and was driven by a pair of horizontal triple-expansion steam engines fed by four cylindrical fire-tube boilers, reaching 18.1 knots on trials. Her armament was four 15 cm and six 12 cm guns with two torpedo tubes. In 1903 to 1905 she circled the globe under the Duke of the Abruzzi, saw action in the Italo-Turkish War of 1911 to 1912, and was sold for scrap in May 1921.