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Italian battleship Ammiraglio di Saint Bon
Summary
Ammiraglio di Saint Bon was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Regia Marina built during the 1890s. She was laid down in July 1893, launched in April 1897, and completed in May 1901. She was the lead ship of her class, and had one sister ship, . The ship was armed with a main battery of four guns and was capable of a top speed of .
Ammiraglio di Saint Bon served in the active squadron of the Italian navy for the first several years of her career. She was assigned to the 3rd Division during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–1912. During the war, she was involved in the seizure of the island of Rhodes, where she provided gunfire support to Italian infantry. The ship was obsolescent by World War I and was slated to be broken up in 1914–1915, but the need for warships granted Ammiraglio di Saint Bon a respite. She spent the war as a harbor defense ship in Venice and, after April 1916, was used primarily as a floating anti-aircraft battery. She was stricken from the naval register in June 1920 and subsequently broken up for scrap.
Ammiraglio di Saint Bon-class battleship
Ammiraglio di Saint Bon was long overall, and had a beam of and a maximum draft of . She displaced normally and up to at full load. The ship had an inverted bow with a ram below the waterline. She was fitted with a single heavy military mast placed amidships, which was equipped with fighting tops for some of the light guns. Ammiraglio di Saint Bon had a crew of 557 officers and enlisted men.
Her propulsion system consisted of two triple expansion engines driving a pair of screw propellers. Steam for the engines was provided by twelve coal-fired cylindrical fire-tube boilers, which were vented through a pair of funnels on either end of the mast. The ship's propulsion system was rated to provide a top speed of from . She had a range of approximately at a more economical cruising speed of .
As built, the ship was armed with a main battery of four 40-caliber guns placed in two twin gun turrets, one forward and one aft. She was also equipped with a secondary battery of eight 40-cal.
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