 Aretusa was a torpedo cruiser of the <unk> class built for the Italian Regia Marina ( Royal Navy ) in the 1880s . <unk> down in June 1889 at the <unk> <unk> <unk> Orlando shipyard , she was launched in March 1891 and was commissioned in September 1892 . Her main armament were her six torpedo tubes , which were supported by a battery of ten small @-@ caliber guns . Aretusa spent most of her career in the main Italian fleet , where she was primarily occupied with training exercises . At the start of the Italo @-@ Turkish War in September 1911 , she was assigned to the Red Sea Squadron in Italian Eritrea . She bombarded Ottoman positions in the Arabian Peninsula and took part in a blockade of the coast . <unk> out by the end of the war in October 1912 , Aretusa was sold for scrap that December and broken up . 
