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VITTORIO EMANUELE screw frigate (1856)


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Vittorio Emanuele  

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Vittorio Emanuele     Arsenale di Genova 1854 1856 1856 // 3.1861 stricken 1900


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

3126

Displacement full, t3300
Length, m

55.6 pp 61.9 oa

Breadth, m

15.3

Draught, m

6.28

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 HC, 3 boilers

Power, h. p.

1488

Max speed, kts

9

Fuel, t

coal 380

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 210/12 80pdr ML, 16 x 1 - 177/16 40pdr ML, 20 x 1 - 177/9 40pdr ML howitzers, 14 x 1 - 135/9 20pdr ML howitzers

Complement

539



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<i>Vittorio Emanuele</i>  
Vittorio Emanuele  


Project history

Wooden screw frigate of Sardinian Navy, incorporated to Regia Marina in 1861.

Modernizations

1866: new armament consisted of 1 x 1 - 270/14 RML, 10 x 1 - 200/9 ML howitzers, 8 x 1 - 164/15 Palliser 3.54ton MLR, 32 x 1 - 164/14 ML, 6 x 1 - 80/11 SBML (landing guns)

1878: new armament consisted of 2 x 1 - 203/13 Armstrong 7ton MLR, 20 x 1 - 164/17 Palliser 5.12ton MLR, 4 x 1 - 80/13 Uchatius SBMLR, 4 x 1 - 75/13 Uchatius 9.5cwt SBBL

1894: new armament consisted of 10 x 1 - 164/17 Palliser 5.12ton MLR, 2 x 1 - 120/40 A

Naval service

Wooden screw frigate of Sardinian Navy, incorporated to Regia Marina. Used as TS since 1894.