Italian battleship Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri on 29 March 1914.
Career (Italy)
Name:	Dante Alighieri
Namesake:	Dante Alighieri (c.1265-1321), Italian poet
Builder:	Castellammare RN yard
Laid down:	6 June 1909
Launched:	20 August 1910
Completed:	15 January 1913
Struck:	1 July 1928
Fate:	Scrapped
General characteristics
Type:	Battleship
Displacement:	19,552 tons standard, 21,600 tons full load
Length:	168.1 m
Beam:	26.6 m
Draught:	8.8 m
Propulsion:	4 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 23 boilers (7 oil fired, 16 mixed fired) 32,000 hp
Speed:	22 knots (41 km/h)
Range:	4,800 nautical miles (8,890 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)
Complement:	981
Armament:	12 - 305 mm (12 inch) guns (4x3) 20 - 120 mm guns (4x2 turrets and 12 x1 casemates 13 - 76 mm guns 3 - 450 mm torpedo tubes
Armour:	Krupp cemented armour Belt 254 mm Deck: 38 mm Conning tower 305 mm Turrets: 254 mm Secondary battery 98 mm

Dante Alighieri was the first dreadnought battleship built for the Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy). Named after the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri, she was the first ship built with triple gun turrets for the main armament. She was laid down by Castellammare Regia Marina shipyard on 6 June 1909, launched on 20 August 1910, and completed on 15 January 1913.

Dante Alighieri served during World War I and was stricken on 1 July 1928 to comply with the Washington Naval Treaty, the first Italian dreadnought other than the sunken Leonardo da Vinci to leave active service. She subsequently was scrapped.

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  Dante Alighieri

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  Aerial view

See also

• Battleships portal

References

Notes

Source

• Faccaroli, Aldo (1970). Italian Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-010-5. 
• Gardiner, Robert. ed. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906-1921. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1985. ISBN 0-87021-907-3.

External links

• page from Warships on the web
• page in Russian Language