Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci
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The Leonardo Da Vinci in 1914 |
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| Laid down: | 1910 |
| Launched: | 1911 |
| Commissioned: | 1915 |
| Recommissioned: | 1937 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1923 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 23,088 tons standard, 25,086 tons full load |
| Length: | 168.9 - 176.1 m |
| Beam: | 28 m |
| Draught: | 9.4 m |
| Propulsion: | 20 boilers, 4 shafts, 31,000 hp |
| Speed: | 21.5 knots (41 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,800 miles at 10 knots |
| Complement: | 1,000 |
| Armament: | 13 x 305/46 mm 18 x 120/50 mm 16 x 76/50 mm 6 x 76/40 mm 3 x 450 mm torpedo launchers |
| Armour: | max 280 mm (vertical) 111 mm (horizontal) |
The battleship Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Conte di Cavour class battleship of the Regia Marina. It was 170 metres long (small for a battleship). Its twenty boilers and four shafts generated 24 MW and gave a top speed of 11 m/s (41 km/h, 21 knots, 25 mph). It was crewed by about 1000 men.
It was built between July 18, 1910 and May 17, 1914. It was capsized in an explosion blamed by the Italian authorities on Austrian sabotage on August 2, 1916, in Taranto harbour. The explosion killed 249 of her crew. After World War I, it was salvaged, but repairs were never finished, and it was sold for scrap in 1923.
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