Italian battleship Dante Alighieri

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The Dante Alighieri was the first dreadnought built for the Regia Marina (Italian pre-1946 navy). Named after the poet Dante Alighieri, she was the first ship built with triple gun turrets for the main armament. She was built by Castellammare RN yard, laid down on 6 June 1909, and launched on 20 August 1910, being completed for 15 January 1913.

Dante Alighieri survived World War I and was decommissioned on 1 July 1928 and scrapped.

[edit] General characteristics

from Conway's all the world's Fighting Ships 1906-1921

Displacement: 19,552 tons standard, 21,600 tons full load
Length: 168.1 m
Beam: 26.6 m
Draught: 8.8 m
Machinery: 4 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 23 boilers (7 oil fired, 16 mixed fired) 32,000 hp
Speed: 22 knots (41 km/h)
Range: 4,800 nautical miles (8,890 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)
Armament:
- 12 - 305 mm (12 inch) guns (4x3)
- 20 - 120 mm guns (4x2 turrets and 12 x1 casemates
- 13 - 76 mm guns
- 3 - 450 mm torpedo tubes
Armour: Krupp Cemented Armour
- Belt 254 mm
- Deck: 38 mm
- Conning tower 305 mm
- Turrets: 254 mm
- Secondary battery 98 mm
Crew: 981