| Career (Italy) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Leonardo da Vinci |
| Namesake: | Leonardo da Vinci |
| Laid down: | 18 July 1910 |
| Launched: | 14 October 1911 |
| Completed: | 17 May 1914 |
| Struck: | 22 September 1923[1] |
| Fate: | Sunk 2 August 1916 Refloated 17 September 1919 Sold for scrapping 26 March 1923 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Conte di Cavour-class battleship |
| Displacement: | 23,088 tons standard, 25,086 tons full load[2] |
| 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 × 305/46 mm 18 × 120/50 mm 16 × 76/50 mm 6 × 76/40 mm 3 × 450 mm torpedo tubes |
| Armour: | 280 mm max (vertical) 111 mm (horizontal) |
Leonardo da Vinci was a Conte di Cavour class battleship of the Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy). She was 170 metres long, small for a battleship. Her twenty boilers and four shafts generated 24MW and gave a top speed of 11 m/s (41 km/h, 21 knots, 25 mph). She was crewed by about 1,000 men.
Leonardo da Vinci was built between 18 July 1910 and 17 May 1914. During World War I, she capsized in Taranto harbour on 2 August 1916 after an explosion blamed by the Italian authorities on Austro-Hungarian sabotage. The explosion killed 249 of her crew.
On 17 September 1919, Leonardo da Vinci was refloated upside down, but repairs were never carried out, and she was sold on 26 March 1923 for scrapping. She officially was stricken on 22 September 1923.[3]
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