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Piemonte 1894

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Piemonte			Armstrong, Elswick, UK	1887	23.8.1888	8.8.1889	discarded 5.1920

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	2443
Displacement full, t	2597
Length, m	92.7 pp 97.8 oa
Breadth, m	11.6
Draught, m	4.86
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 4 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	7100
Max speed, kts	20.4
Fuel, t	coal 560
Endurance, nm(kts)	7000(12)
Armour, mm	compound; deck: 76, gunshields: 114, CT: 76
Armament	6 x 1 - 152/40 A, 6 x 1 - 120/40 A, 10 x 1 - 57/40 H, 6 x 1 - 37/20 H corto, 4 x 1 - 11.4/94, 2 - 350 TT (beam)
Complement	298

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Project history

Designed by Philip Watts, Piemonte was the first warship in the world armed exclusively with QF guns. Her armament proved too heavy, however, so her 152mm guns were first reduced in number and then removed. She was well protected but had no double bottom, and watertight bulkheads were not fitted in the boiler rooms and in the crank-pits.

Ship protection

Protective deck had 76mm flat and 76mm slopes, 152mm guns had 114mm shields.

Modernizations

1891: - 4 x 1 - 152/40; + 4 x 1 - 120/40 A

1913: - 2 x 1 - 152/40, 4 x 1 - 57/40, 4 x 1 - 37/20

Naval service

No significant events.