Regia Marina — Battleship class
Conte di Cavour-class battleship
Conte di Cavour class
The class in numbers
- 3 Completed
- 1 Lost
- 2 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Battleship
- Navy
- Regia Marina
- Built
- 1910–1915
- In commission
- 1914–1955
- Preceded by
- Italian battleship Dante Alighieri
- Succeeded by
- Andrea Doria-class battleship
- Builders
- Arsenale di la Spezia
- Cantieri navali Odero
- Gio. Ansaldo & C.
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
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
- Speed
- 21.5 knots (39.8 km/h, 24.7 mph)
- Complement
- 1,000
- Main gun
- 305 mm (12 in)
- Armament
- 3 × triple, 2 × twin 305 mm guns
- 18 × single 120 mm guns
- 14 × single 76.2 mm guns
- 3 × 450 mm torpedo tubes
After reconstruction
- Displacement, full load
- 29,100 long tons (29,567 t)
- Length
- 186.4 m (611.5 ft)
- Speed
- 27 knots (50 km/h, 31.1 mph)
- Complement
- 1,260
- Main gun
- 320 mm (12.6 in)
- Armament
- 2 × triple, 2 × twin 320 mm
- 6 × twin 120 mm
- 4 × twin 100 mm / 47 caliber AA guns
Roster
Holding 2 of the 3 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italian battleship Conte di Cavour | 1911 | Scrapped 1946 | |
| Italian battleship Giulio Cesare | 1914 | Sunk 1955 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Conte di Cavour-class battleship on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.