Corvette Saida (1879), commemorating the capture of Sidon (1840)
Builder
CNT, Monfalcone
Laid down
9 September 1911
Launched
26 October 1912
Completed
1 August 1914
Fate
Ceded to Italy, 19 September 1920
Italy
Name
Venezia
Namesake
Venice, Italy
Acquired
19 September 1920
Stricken
11 March 1937
Fate
Scrapped, 1937
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type
Novara-class scout cruiser
Displacement
3,500 long tons (3,600 t)
Length
130.64 m (428 ft 7 in)
Beam
12.79 m (42 ft 0 in)
Draft
4.6 m (15 ft 1 in)
Installed power
25,600 shp (19,100 kW)
Propulsion
2 shafts
2 Melms-Pfenniger steam turbines
16 Yarrow water-tube boilers
Speed
27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Range
1,600 nmi (3,000 km; 1,800 mi) at a speed of 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph)
Complement
340
Armament
9 × 1 - 10 cm (3.9 in) guns
1 × 7 cm (2.8 in) anti-aircraft gun
1 × 47 mm (1.9 in) SFK L/44 gun
6 x twin 53.3 cm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes
Armor
Waterline belt: 60 mm (2.4 in)
Deck: 20 mm (0.8 in)
SMS Saida was a Novara-class scout cruiser built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the early 1910s. The ship was armed with a main battery of nine 10 cm (3.9 in) guns, and six twin 53.3 cm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes were added in 1917. She was built by the Cantiere Navale Triestino shipyard from 1911 to 1914, entering service days after the outbreak of World War I. She spent the war as a flotilla leader, conducting raids and patrols in the narrow waters of the Adriatic Sea.
In May 1917, Saida took part in the Battle of the Strait of Otranto, the largest naval action in the course of the war in the Adriatic. Saida was tasked with provoking a final fleet confrontation in June 1918, but the attack was called off after the dreadnought battleship SMS Szent Istvan was sunk by an Italian motor torpedo boat. Saida was ceded to Italy after the war and commissioned as Venezia. She served in the Regia Marina (Royal Navy) from 1921 to 1937, ending her career as a barracks ship after 1930. The ship was ultimately broken up for scrap in 1937. The three Novara class cruisers were the largest vessels of the former Austro-Hungarian Navy to see service in foreign navies after the war.
SMSSaida was a Novara-class scout cruiser built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the early 1910s. The ship was armed with a main battery of nine 10 cm...
including one to Australia, as a cadet aboard the sail training corvette SMSSaida II. On the voyage home, he visited the Holy Land, where he met a Franciscan...
sunk. On 23 July the scout cruisers SMSSaida and SMS Helgoland, escorted by Balaton, her sisters SMS Csepel and SMS Tátra and three other destroyers bombarded...
slower ships. On 28 July, all six Tátra-class ships and the scout cruisers SMSSaida and Helgoland, reinforced by the German submarine UB-14, attempted to...
dreadnoughts: SMS Prinz Eugen and SMS Tegetthoff one pre-dreadnought: SMS Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand three cruisers: SMS Helgoland, SMS Novara and SMSSaida the...
major operation against the barrage, utilising the Rapidkreuzers SMSSaida, Helgoland and SMS Novara under Admiral Miklós Horthy with two destroyers and three...
slower ships. On 23 July Helgoland and her sister SMSSaida, escorted by Csepel, Tátra, their sister SMS Balaton and three other destroyers bombarded the...
slower ships. On 28 July, all six Tátra-class ships and the scout cruisers SMSSaida and Helgoland, reinforced by the German submarine UB-14, attempted to...
the night of 14/15 May 1917 by the cruisers SMS Novara, Helgoland, and Saida supported by the destroyers SMS Csepel and Balaton and Austro-Hungarian U-boats...
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