Italian battleship Vittorio Emanuele

Vittorio Emanuele during World War I
History
Italy
Name	Vittorio Emanuele
Namesake	Victor Emmanuel II of Italy
Operator	Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy)
Builder	Regio Cantiere di Castellammare di Stabia
Laid down	18 September 1901
Launched	12 October 1904
Completed	1 August 1908
Stricken	1 April 1923
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type	Regina Elena-class pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement	13,914 long tons (14,137 t)
Length	144.6 m (474 ft)
Beam	22.4 m (73 ft)
Draft	8.58 m (28.1 ft)
Installed power	28 × Belleville boilers 19,424 ihp (14,484 kW)
Propulsion	2 × triple-expansion steam engines 2 × screw propellers
Speed	21.36 knots (39.56 km/h; 24.58 mph)
Range	10,000 nmi (19,000 km; 12,000 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	742–764
Armament	2 × 305 mm (12 in)/40 guns 12 × 203 mm (8 in)/45 guns 16 × 76 mm (3 in)/40 guns 2 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes
Armor	Belt: 250 mm (9.8 in) Turrets: 203 mm (8 in) Decks: 38 mm (1.5 in) Conning tower: 254 mm (10 in)

Vittorio Emanuele was an Italian pre-dreadnought battleship, laid down in 1901, launched in 1904 and completed in 1908. She was the second member of the Regina Elena class, which included three other vessels: Regina Elena, Napoli, and Roma. Vittorio Emmanuele was armed with a main battery of two 305 mm (12 in) guns and twelve 203 mm (8 in) guns. She was quite fast for the period, with a top speed of nearly 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph).

Vittorio Emmaneule saw action in the Italo-Turkish War as the flagship of the 1st Division. During the war, she participated in operations in Cyrenaica and the eastern Mediterranean Sea, including the seizure of the islands of Rhodes and the Dodecanese. She served during the First World War, but saw no combat during the war due to the hesitance of both the Italian and Austro-Hungarian navies to risk their capital ships in pitched battle. She remained in service as a training ship until 1923, when she was stricken from the naval register and broken up for scrap.