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Dandolo 1898

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Duilio			R. Cantiere di Castellamare di Stabia	6.1.1873	8.5.1876	6.1.1880	stricken 6.1909
Dandolo			R. Arsenale di La Spezia	6.1.1873	10.7.1878	11.4.1882	stricken 1.1920

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	Duilio: 10962 Dandolo: 11025
Displacement full, t	Duilio: 12071 Dandolo: 12037
Length, m	103.5 pp 109.2 oa
Breadth, m	19.7
Draught, m	Duilio: 8.31 Dandolo: 8.36
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VC, 8 rectangular boilers
Power, h. p.	Duilio: 7711 Dandolo: 8045
Max speed, kts	Duilio: 15.0 Dandolo: 15.6
Fuel, t	coal 1000
Endurance, nm(kts)	3760(10)
Armour, mm	steel; side: 550 max, deck: 30 - 50, turrets: 430, citadel: 430, transverse frames: 400
Armament	Duilio: 2 x 2 - 450/20 Armstrong 100ton MLR, 3 - 350 TT (1 bow, 2 beam), 1 TB Clio Dandolo: 2 x 2 - 450/20 Armstrong 100ton MLR, 3 - 350 TT (1 bow, 2 beam)
Complement	420

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Project history

These two vessels were the first battleships in the world rigged only with a military mast and armed with giant guns, and were the first Italian 2-shaft capital ships. They were designed by Director Eng Benedetto Brin. The original plan was for four 35t guns, then for 60t guns, but 100t weapons were actually fitted. Armstrong-built MLs, these fired one 865kg projectile every 15 minutes, with a muzzle velocity of 454-509m/s. Aboard Duilio, at the stern, was a compartment for a small TB (Clio, 261t).

Ship protection

  The belt was of Creusot steel plates; the armoured central citadel, redoubt and turrets were NS, the turrets being mounted en echelon close together amidships. There was a cellular raft at the bows and stern between an underwater deck and that next above, subdivided into 83 watertight compartments.

Modernizations

1890, Duilio: + 3 x 1 - 120/40 A

1898, Dandolo: was rebuilt: 10679/11264t, new VC engines, complement was 495, new turrets had 225mm armour; new armament consisted of 2 x 2 - 254/40 A, 7 x 1 - 152/40 A91, 5 x 1 - 120/40 A91, 16 x 1 - 57/43 N, 8 x 5 - 37/20 H, 4 x 1 - 11.4/94, 4 - 450 TT (1 bow, 2 beam, 1 stern)

1900, Duilio: + 2 x 1 - 76/40 A, 8 x 1 - 57/40 H, 4 x 5 - 37/20 H

Naval service

Duilio was disarmed on 27.6.1909, hulked and, renumbered GM40, used as a floating coal and oil tank. Dandolo was rebuilt in 1895/8 to Insp Eng Giacinto Pullino's design. During World War I she served as a local defence ship, first at Brindisi and later at Valona. She was removed from the Navy list on 23.1.1920.