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Dante Alighieri 1914  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Dante Alighieri			R. Cantiere di Castellamare di Stabia	6.6.1909	20.8.1910	15.1.1913	stricken 11.1928

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	19552
Displacement full, t	21800
Length, m	158.4 wl 168.1 oa
Breadth, m	26.6
Draught, m	8.80 normal 9.75 max
No of shafts	4
Machinery	4 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 23 Blechynden boilers
Power, h. p.	32190
Max speed, kts	22.8
Fuel, t	coal 2400 + oil 600
Endurance, nm(kts)	4800(10)
Armour, mm	belt: 250 - 76, main turrets: 250, secondary turrets: 100, battery: 100, CT: 280, deck: 50 with 50-mm slopes
Armament	4 x 3 - 305/46 A1909, 4 x 2 - 120/50 A1909, 12 x 1 - 120/50  A1909, 13 x 1 - 76/40 A1897, 3 - 450 TT sub (1 bow, 2 beam)
Complement	981

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Project history

The first Italian dreadnought and first-ever (when she was laid down) ship with triple turrets, the truth, she was commissioned soon after Austrian Viribus Unitis. The typical representative of the Italian shipbuilding school: ship protection has been sacrificed to armament and speed. As a whole on set of battle qualities she yielded to contemporary battleships of other countries.

Ship protection

Thickness of main belt was 250mm between end barbettes decreasing respectively to 100 and 76mm at fore and aft ends. Upper belt was 203mm maximally. Main deck was connected with lower edge of main belt by 50mm slopes. There were 24mm battery deck and 30mm upper deck over battery.

Modernizations

1913: + Curtiss seaplane

1915: - 13 x 1 - 76/40; + 16 x 1 - 76/50 A1909, 4 x 1 - 76/50 A1909 AA

1923: - 8 x 1 - 76/50; + 2 x 1 - 40/39 V1917

Naval service

No significant events.