italian ironclad ironclad warship second final member class built italian regia marina royal_navy 1860s 1870s armed battery guns gun sail rigged ironclad italian fleet single steam engine capable ship speed slightly knots mph entered service uneventful career served primarily italy colonial empire action took international naval demonstration enforce treaty berlin employed defense training ship stricken naval register broken scrap design meters long perpendiculars beam average draft displaced metric tons long tons short tons normally long tons short tons load 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 steam nautical miles speed knots mph ship barque rigged supplement steam engine sister rigged ironclads built italy crew officers men armed main battery guns mounted armored casemates located forward bow second placed close stern ship gun mounted forward bow protected iron belt armor thick extended entire length hull casemates protected iron plating small conning tower thick iron plates service history keel laid shipyard august ship named sunk battle date launch unknown surviving records indicate september october ship completed july decade work time completed primarily served italian colonial empire italy begun acquiring 1880s occasionally took training maneuvers main italian fleet career november ironclad took naval demonstration attempt force ottoman_empire comply terms treaty berlin turn town montenegro headquarters ship ships defending training ship ship stricken naval register april broken scrap
Italian ironclad Palestro