Italian battleship Andrea Doria

Andrea Doria after her 1937–1940 reconstruction.
History
Italy
Name	Andrea Doria
Namesake	Andrea Doria
Builder	Arsenale di La Spezia
Laid down	24 March 1912
Launched	30 March 1913
Completed	13 March 1916
Decommissioned	16 September 1956
Stricken	1 November 1956
Fate	Scrapped, 1956
General characteristics
Class and type	Andrea Doria-class battleship
Displacement	Full load: 24,729 t (24,338 long tons; 27,259 short tons)
Length	176 m (577 ft)
Beam	28 m (92 ft)
Draft	9.4 m (31 ft)
Installed power	20 × Yarrow boilers 30,000 shp (22,000 kW)
Propulsion	4 × Parsons steam turbine 4 × screw propellers
Speed	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Range	4,800 nmi (8,900 km; 5,500 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	35 officers 1,998 enlisted
Armament	13 × 305 mm (12 in) guns 16 × 152 mm (6 in) guns 13 × 76 mm (3 in) guns 6 × 76 mm anti-aircraft guns 3 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes
Armor	Belt: 254 mm (10 in) Gun turrets: 280 mm (11 in) Deck: 98 mm (3.9 in) Conning tower: 280 mm

Andrea Doria was the lead ship of her class of battleships built by the Regia Marina (Royal Navy). The class included only one sister ship, Duilio. Andrea Doria was named after the 16th-century Genoese admiral of the same name. Laid down in March 1912, the battleship was launched a year later in March 1913, and completed in March 1916. She was armed with a main battery of thirteen 305 mm (12 in) guns and had a top speed of 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph).

Andrea Doria saw no major action in World War I, and served extensively in Mediterranean in the 1920s and 1930s. She was involved in the suppression of rebels in Fiume and the Corfu incident in the 1920s. Starting in 1937, Andrea Doria underwent an extensive modernization, which lasted until 1940. She saw relatively little action during World War II; she was tasked with escorting convoys to Libya throughout 1941 and into 1942, during which she engaged in the inconclusive First Battle of Sirte. After the Armistice in September 1943 the ship was sailed to Malta and interned by the Allies. She remained there until 1944, when she was permitted to return to Italian ports. Andrea Doria survived the war and soldiered on in the post-war navy as a training ship until 1956. Paid off in September, she was formally stricken from the naval register on 1 November and sold for scrapping later that year.