italian ironclad second class ironclads built italian regia marina royal_navy 1860s laid september hull launched december completed february broadside ironclad armed battery inch guns eighteen millimeter guns career limited owing emergence modern ironclads severe reduction italian naval budget following defeat battle discarded sold ship breakers help pay new ironclads construction design meters long perpendiculars beam average draft displaced metric tons long tons short tons normally long tons short tons load crew propulsion system consisted single expansion steam engine drove single screw propeller steam supplied coal fired cylindrical fire tube boilers engine produced speed knots mph indicated horsepower making fastest member class steam nautical miles speed knots mph supplement steam engine ship barque rigged broadside ironclad armed main battery pounder guns eighteen rifled muzzle loading guns ship equipped spur shaped ram bow ship hull wrought iron armor thick service history laid september launched december completed february late action italian war independence ended previous august member class completed time war conflict significant effect career government lost confidence fleet defeat battle drastically reduced naval budget cuts severe fleet great difficulty ironclad squadron attack port september wars italian unification instead ships laid sailors man sent home addition rapidly surpassed central battery turret ships rendered generation ironclads traditional broadside obsolete result significant way years service ship armament revised guns guns guns navy struck list ships broke scrap navy discarded sisters ironclad remove cost maintaining naval budget effort reduce financial impact new classes construction
Italian ironclad Messina