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Formidabile  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Terribile			F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne, France	6/1860	16.2.1861	9/1861	stricken 8.1903
Formidabile			F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne, France	12/1860	1.10.1861	5/1862	stricken 7.1904

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	2682
Displacement full, t	Terribile: 2807 Formidabile: 2618
Length, m	63.1 pp 65.8 oa
Breadth, m	14.4
Draught, m	5.45
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 HSE, 6 rectangular boilers
Power, h. p.	Terribile: 1100 Formidabile: 1080
Max speed, kts	10
Fuel, t	coal 310
Endurance, nm(kts)	1300(10)
Armour, mm	iron; belt: 110, citadel: 100
Armament	4 x 1 - 203/13 Armstrong 7ton MLR, 16 x 1 - 164/17 Palliser 5.12ton MLR or 164/16 Palliser 3.54ton MLR
Complement	371

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Project history

Ordered during Cavour's ministry from French yards and designed as armoured floating batteries for coastal actions these vessels, the first Italian ironclads, were modified before completion into ironclad corvettes, able to fight also in open water, and their projected armament was reduced from 30 to 20 guns. They were rigged as three-masted schooners.

Ship protection

Their sides were entirely protected by 110mm thick iron plates.

Modernizations

1872-1873, both: were reboilered

1878: - 16 x 1 - 164/(16-17); + 4 x 1 - 203/13 Armstrong 7ton MLR

1885, Terribile: - 8 x 1 - 203/13; + 2 x 1 - 152/33 A1883, 2 x 1 - 149/26 C, 2 x 1 - 120/20 Armstrong 1.26ton BLR, 2 - 350 TT (beam)

1887, Formidabile: - 8 x 1 - 203/13; + 6 x 1 - 120/20 Armstrong 1.26ton BLR

1890s, Formidabile: - 6 x 1 - 120/20; + 6 x 1 - 120/32 B(s.o.)

Naval service

Terribile was used as TS and experimental ship after 1885. Formidabile served as TS for gunners after 1887.