italian ironclad italian ironclad battleship built italian regia marina royal_navy second ship class laid november launched march completed august armed main battery guns mounted central barbette capable speed knots mph unlike capital ships era armored deck typical belt armor spent decades career took annual training maneuvers rest fleet withdrawn service use training ship italo turkish war ship provided fire support italian troops defending tripoli libya ultimately stricken naval register january sold scrapping march design meters long overall beam average draft displaced metric tons long tons short tons normally long tons short tons load propulsion system consisted compound steam engines driving single screw propeller steam supplied coal fired oval boilers sixteen fire tube boilers engines produced speed knots mph indicated horsepower steam nautical miles speed knots mph crew officers men armed main battery caliber guns mounted pairs central barbette carried secondary battery caliber guns caliber guns customary capital ships period carried torpedo tubes unlike ships built time vertical belt armor designer believed contemporary steel effectively defeat armor piercing shells day discarded completely instead protected armored deck thick conning tower armored thickness steel plate barbette steel armor service history construction nearly years laid orlando shipyard november months sister spent nearly half years building ways launched march half years completed half years construction finally finished august months completion entering service took annual fleet maneuvers ironclads protected cruiser torpedo cruisers numerous smaller vessels maneuvers consisted close order drills simulated attack defense later year ship present naval review held german kaiser visit italy participated annual fleet maneuvers squadron protected cruisers torpedo boats exercises conducted squadron tasked defending attacking hostile squadron ship served flagship 1st fleet maneuvers ironclad torpedo cruisers torpedo boats maneuvers lasted august september ships simulated french attack italian fleet assigned ironclads year unrest ottoman_empire killed hundreds foreign nationals prompted european great powers send international fleet pressure ottomans victims november small italian squadron sent join fleet mobilized larger force naples consisted ironclads protected cruiser torpedo cruisers torpedo boats second squadron stocked coal ammunition event need reinforce squadron june steamed britain represent italy fleet review queen victoria held 26th month periodic fleet maneuvers later year assigned included ironclads protected cruiser following year consisted cruisers class ironclads served kept service months year remainder spent reduced crews early 1890s considered rebuilding lines received new quick firing inch guns place slow inch guns sister guns replaced new inch guns plan abandoned costly withdrawn line service year gunnery training ship time armament consisted original guns guns caliber guns caliber guns machine guns added torpedo tubes removed time depot ship annual fleet maneuvers september october present carry observers exercises directly training start italo turkish war assigned fleet sister ironclad december sent tripoli replacing class ironclads support italian garrison captured city sent large large shells stricken reinstated january class auxiliary ship stricken second time january sold scrap march subsequently broken
Italian ironclad Lepanto