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Italy Cruise Shore Tours Day Tours
Italy Cruise Shore Tours Day Tours
Italy Cruise Shore Tours Day Tours
Italy Cruise Shore Tours Day Tours
Italy Cruise Shore Tours Day Tours
Italy Cruise Shore Tours Day Tours
Italy Cruise Shore Tours Day Tours
Italy Cruise Shore Tours Day Tours
Italy Cruise Shore Tours Day Tours
Italy Cruise Shore Tours Day Tours
Italy Cruise Shore Tours Day Tours
Italy Cruise Shore Tours Day Tours
Italy Cruise Shore Tours Day Tours
Italy Cruise Shore Tours Day Tours
Italy Cruise Shore Tours Day Tours
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Ravello, 80061, Naples, Italy

The Italian cruiser San Giorgio was the name ship of her class of two armored cruisers built for the Royal Italian Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. Commissioned in 1910, the ship was badly damaged when she ran aground before the start of the Italo-Turkish War in 1911, although she was repaired before its end. During World War I, San Giorgio's activities were limited by the threat of Austro-Hungarian submarines, although the ship did participate in the bombardment of Durazzo, Albania, in late 1918. She acted as a royal yacht for Crown Prince Umberto's 1924 tour of South America and then deployed to the Indian Ocean to support operations in Italian Somaliland in 1925–26. San Giorgio served as a training ship from 1930 to 1935 and was then rebuilt in 1937–38 to better serve in that role. As part of her reconstruction, she received a modern anti-aircraft suite that was augmented before she was transferred to bolster the defences of Tobruk shortly before Italy declared war on the Allies in mid-1940. San Giorgio was forced to scuttle herself in early 1941 as the Allies moved in to occupy the port. Her wreck was used as an immobile repair ship by the British from 1943 through 1945. Salvaged in 1952, she sank while under tow to Italy to be broken up.
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