italian ironclad class ironclads built italian regia marina royal_navy differed respects sisters unlike members class receive complete iron armor instead relying partial plating bow stern laid february launched july completed december 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 unlike sisters complete iron armor sides instead wrought iron armor covered parts bow stern rest ship received traditional timber armor service history keel laid shipyard february launched july completed december ship long particularly active career rapidly surpassed central battery turret ships generation ironclads traditional broadside quickly obsolete addition italian 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 result significant way years service ship stricken naval register actually broken scrap navy discarded sisters ironclad remove cost maintaining naval budget effort reduce financial impact new classes construction
Italian ironclad Conte Verde