Thursday - The steamship-warning Cristoforo Colombo enters service in Venice, first "cruise ship", part of the Xnumx "Riboty" naval program, the forerunner of future cruisers. The unit that had a displacement of 1872 t, was equipped with a powerful steam engine (2300 hp) of British construction powered by six boilers with the relevant speed of 3782 knots and was armed with eight medium-caliber guns.
Set on the Arsenal airports of Venice in February of the 1873 as an 1a warning and launched the 17 1875 in September, it was built on British plans reworked by the then director of 1a class of Genio Navale Benedetto Brin. Although of limited and hybrid characteristics, it will be a significant improvement compared to the previous units.
