Italian cruiser Agordat: provided gunfire support when which empire and kingdom fought?
Italian cruiser Agordat Agordat was a torpedo cruiser of the Italian "Regia Marina" built in the late 1890s. She was the lead ship of the "Agordat" class , which had one other member, "Coatit" . The ship, which was armed with twelve 76 mm guns and two 450 mm torpedo tubes, was too slow and short-ranged to be able to scout effectively for the fleet, so her career was limited. She saw action during the Italo-Turkish War in 1911–12, where she provided gunfire support to Italian troops in North Africa. She assisted in the occupation of Constantinople in the aftermath of World War I, and in 1919 she was reclassified as a gunboat. In January 1923, "Agordat" was sold for scrapping.
Battle of Zanzibar The Battle of Zanzibar took place between the German "Kaiserliche Marine" and the British Royal Navy early in the First World War of 1914-1918. The German cruiser SMS "Königsberg" , while taking on coal in the delta of the Rufiji River (German East Africa), learned that a British cruiser—HMS "Pegasus" , which had been part of the Royal Navy's Cape Squadron sent to counter "Königsberg"—had put in at Zanzibar for repairs. "Königsberg"′s captain—Commander Max Looff—decided to attack "Pegasus" while she was in port.