Brindisi 1920

Name	No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Brindisi (ex-Helgoland)		Danubius Werft, Fiume, Austria-Hungary	28/10/1911	23/11/1912	29/8/1914 // 19/9/1920	accommodation ship 11/1929
Venezia (ex-Saida)		CNT, Monfalcone, Austria-Hungary	9/9/1911	26/10/1912	1/8/1914 // 19/9/1920	accommodation ship 3/1930

Displacement normal, t	3500
Displacement full, t	Brindisi: 4375 Venezia: 4327
Length, m	129.7 wl 130.6 oa
Breadth, m	12.8
Draught, m	5.30 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	Brindisi: AEG steam turbines, 16 Yarrow boilers Venezia: Melms-Pfenniger steam turbines, 16 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	25600
Max speed, kn	27
Fuel, t	coal 800
Endurance, nm(kts)	1600(24)
Armour, mm	belt: 60, deck: 20, shields: 40, CT: 50
Armament	9 x 1 - 100/47 Škoda K10, 1 x 1 - 66/47 Škoda K16, 1 x 1 - 47/40 Škoda (landing), 3 x 2 - 533 TT
Complement	368

Ship project history: Ex-Austrian cruisers of Admiral Spaun class. Brindisi was commissioned 7/6/1923 and Venezia 5/7/1921.

Ship protection: 60mm belt closed machinery spaces only and was connected with flat 20mm deck by top. Guns had 40mm shields.

Modernizations: 1921 - 1922, both: - 1 x 1 - 66/47, 1 x 1 - 47/40, 1 x 2 - 533 TT; + 1 x 1 - 37/43 Vickers 1914, 120 mines

Naval service: Both were later used as accommodation ships, and sold in March, 1937.

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