Italian battleship Conte di Cavour
Service
- as Conte di Cavour? — 19462,193 days of the war
- Name
- Conte di Cavour
- Namesake
- Count Camillo Benso di Cavour
- Builder
- Arsenale di La Spezia, La Spezia
- Laid down
- 10 August 1910
- Launched
- 10 August 1911
- Fate
- Scrapped, 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications — As built
- Displacement, standard
- 23,088 long tons (23,458 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 25,086 long tons (25,489 t)
- Length
- 176 m (577.4 ft) OA
- Beam
- 28 m (91.9 ft)
- Draught
- 9.3 m (30.5 ft)
- Speed
- 22.2 knots (41.1 km/h, 25.5 mph)
- Range
- 4,800 nmi (8,890 km)
- Complement
- 1,000
- Main gun
- 305 mm (12 in)
Conte di Cavour was a Conte di Cavour-class battleship dreadnought battleship built for the Regia Marina. She was named for Count Camillo Benso di Cavour. Arsenale di La Spezia, La Spezia laid her keel on 10 August 1910. She was launched on 10 August 1911.
Two ships of the class were built. The class followed the Italian battleship Dante Alighieri and was succeeded by the Andrea Doria-class battleship.
Displacement was 23,088 long tons standard and 25,086 long tons at full load. She measured 176 m (577 ft) long with a beam of 28 m (92 ft). Her designed speed was 22.2 knots, and she carried a complement of 1,000.
Her main battery was four 305 mm (12.0 in) guns in two twin mountings. Her machinery developed 31,000 shp.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 1946.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
This vessel is recorded in 2 configurations. Wartime refits changed armament and complement substantially, so each is kept separately rather than averaged into one set of figures. The figures above are as built.
As built
- Propulsion
- 4 × shafts; 3 × steam turbines
- Power
- 20 × water-tube boilers
- 31000 shp
- Armament
- 3 × triple, 2 × twin 305 mm guns
- 18 × single 120 mm guns
- 14 × single 76.2 mm guns
- 3 × 450 mm torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Waterline belt: 80 - 250 mm
- Deck: 24 - 40 mm
- Gun turrets: 240 - 280 mm
- Barbettes: 130 - 230 mm
- Conning tower: 280 mm
After reconstruction
- Displacement, full load
- 29,100 long tons (29,567 t)
- Length
- 186.4 m (611.5 ft)
- Beam
- 28.6 m (93.8 ft)
- Draught
- 10.02 m (32.9 ft)
- Speed
- 27 knots (50 km/h, 31.1 mph)
- Range
- 6,400 nmi (11,853 km)
- Complement
- 1,260
- Main gun
- 320 mm (12.6 in)
- Propulsion
- 2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines
- Power
- 8 × Yarrow boilers
- 75000 shp
- Armament
- 2 × triple, 2 × twin 320 mm guns
- 6 × twin 120 mm guns
- 4 × twin 100 mm AA guns
- 6 × twin 37 mm AA guns
- 6 × twin 13.2 mm AA MGs
- Armour
- Deck: 135 - 166 mm
- Barbettes: 130 - 280 mm
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Italian battleship Conte di Cavour on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — http://www.marina.difesa.it/storiacultura/storia/almanacco/PublishingImages/corazzate%20navi%20battaglia/cavour04.jpg — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons