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ITALIAN CRUISER
" VARESE"
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Compliments of The Prudential Insurance Company of America
Incorporated as a Stock Company by the State of New Jersey
Home Office, Newark, N. J.
THE VARESE, of the Italian Navy, is an
armored cruiser. Displacement, 7,294 tons.
Length, 344 feet. Width, 594 feet. Dra't,
23% feet. Horse-power, 13,500. Armament:
1 10-inch gun; 2 8-inch; 14 6-inch;
10 2.9-inch; 6 1.8-inch; 2 machine guns.
Speed, 20 knots. Crew, 542 officers and
men. Built at Leghorn, Italy, in 1899-1900.