Hi everyone, I want to tell an anecdote from the First World War.
In 1911 Ansaldo of Genoa was building a small armored cruiser for Turkey; the guns would have been "Armstrong Pozzuoli", 2 152/50 A.1913 and 8 120/45 A.1913. At the outbreak of the Libyan war the ship was almost ready and was requisitioned by Italy, which put it into service with the name "Libia".
During the First World War, due to the lack of heavy cannons, the two 152/50 A.1913 were landed and placed in defense of Venice (Italy had no other cannons of this model that Armstrong produced in Pozzuoli for the ships sold at 'abroad).
Now, a short time ago I found these photos on the site "
www.14-18.it" (but I also saw them on another site) and the caption said "Turkish cannon in Punta Sdobba (Venice Lagoon)"; it should be one of those two 152/50 A.1913 cannons.
- 152-50 A1913 cannone turco a Punta Sdobba a.PNG (192.46 KiB) Viewed 1083 times
- 152-50 A1913 cannone turco a Punta Sdobba b.PNG (194.88 KiB) Viewed 1083 times
I also put an extract from an official list of the Royal Navy of 1919, which says that only one copy had been saved. After the war on the ship "Libia" they were replaced by two other 120/45.
Regards.