Warship Wednesday, Feb 15
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take out every Wednesday for a look at the old steampunk navies of the 1880s-1930s and will profile a different ship each week.
– Christopher Eger
Warship Wednesday, Feb 15
Here we have the Italian Battleship Roma
She was a Regina Elena-class warship. The Regina Elena class battleship was a class of battleships built for the Italian Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy) between 1904 and 1911.They were considered to be the fastest pre-dreadnought battleships in any navy at that time. Designed by Vittorio Cuniberti, they saw service during the Italo-Turkish War with the Ottoman Empire in 1911-1912 and in World War I, in which Italy participated from 1915 to 1918.They were laid up in the 1920s.
Name: Roma
Namesake: Rome
Operator: Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy)
Builder: La Spezia Naval Shipyard
Laid down: 20 September 1903
Launched: 21 April 1907
Completed: 17 December 1908
Struck: 1 September 1927
Fate: Discarded 1932 and scrapped
Notes: Served as harbor training ship 1927-1932
General characteristics
Type: Pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement: 12,550–12,658 long tons (12,751–12,861 t) normal
13,771–13,914 long tons (13,992–14,137 t) full load
Length: 474 ft 5 in (144.6 m)
Beam: 73 ft 6 in (22.4 m)
Draft: 28 ft 1.5 in (8.6 m) (maximum)
Installed power: 19,299–21,968 ihp (14,391–16,382 kW)
Propulsion: 2 shafts, vertical triple expansion steam engines, 28 boilers
Speed: 20.8–22.15 knots (38.5–41.02 km/h; 23.9–25.49 mph)
Range: 5,000–10,000 nautical miles (9,260–18,520 km; 5,754–11,508 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement: 557
Armament: 2 × 1 – 12-inch (305 mm)/40 guns
6 × 2 – 8-inch (203 mm)/45 guns
16 or 24 × 1 – 3-inch (76 mm)/40 guns
2 × 1 – 17.7-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor: Belt and side: 9.8 in (249 mm)
Deck: 1.5 in (38.1 mm)
Turrets: 8 in (203 mm)
Conning tower: 10 in (254 mm)