Italian cruiser Euridice

Euridice was a torpedo cruiser of the built for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in the 1880s.

Design
Euridice was 73.1 m long overall and had a beam of 8.22 m and an average draft of 3.48 m. She displaced 904 MT normally. Her propulsion system consisted of a pair of horizontal triple-expansion steam engines each driving a single screw propeller, with steam supplied by four coal-fired locomotive boilers. Specific figures for Euridice's engine performance have not survived, but the ships of her class had top speeds of 18.1 to 20.8 kn at 3884 to 4422 ihp. The ship had a cruising radius of about 1800 nmi at a speed of 10 kn. She had a crew of between 96–121.

Euridice was armed with a main battery of one 120 mm /40 gun and six 57 mm /43 guns mounted singly. She was also equipped with three 37 mm /20 guns in single mounts. Her primary offensive weapon was her six 450 mm torpedo tubes. The ship was protected by an armored deck that was up to 1.6 in thick; her conning tower was armored with the same thickness of steel plate.

Service history
The keel for Euridice was laid down on 14 February 1889 at the Regio Cantiere di Castellammare di Stabia (Royal Dockyard in Castellammare di Stabia). The completed hull was launched on 22 September 1890. After fitting-out work was completed, the ship was commissioned into the fleet on 1 May 1891.

Euridice took part in the annual fleet exercises in 1893 in the "attacking squadron", which also included six ironclads, her sister ship ITALIAN CRUISER Iride and the torpedo cruisers ITALIAN CRUISER Goito and ITALIAN CRUISER Monzambano. In 1895, she was assigned to the 2nd Division of the Permanent Squadron, which included her sister ship ITALIAN CRUISER Calatafimi, the ironclad battleship ITALIAN IRONCLAD Francesco Morosini, and the protected cruiser ITALIAN CRUISER Etruria. The Squadron was based at La Spezia at the time, though Euridice was stationed primarily in Taranto and Naples, along with most of the other torpedo cruisers of the Italian fleet.

In 1903, Euridice was assigned to the 1st Squadron, along with her sister ITALIAN CRUISER Minerva. The unit also included eight battleships, six other cruisers, and six destroyers. The 1st Squadron was kept in active service for seven months of the year for training, and had reduced crews for the remainder of the year.

The ship was sold for scrap in March 1907 and subsequently broken up.