Italian ironclad Sicilia

Sicilia
History
Italy
Name	Sicilia
Namesake	Sicily
Builder	Venetian Arsenal
Laid down	3 November 1884
Launched	6 June 1891
Completed	4 May 1895
Stricken	9 July 1914
Fate	Stricken 1923
General characteristics
Class and type	Re Umberto-class ironclad battleship
Displacement	Normal: 13,058 long tons (13,268 t) Full load: 14,842 long tons (15,080 t)
Length	127.6 m (418 ft 7.5 in)
Beam	23.4 m (76 ft 10.5 in)
Draft	8.8 m (28 ft 11.5 in)
Installed power	19,131 ihp (14,266 kW) 18 × fire-tube boilers
Propulsion	2 × compound steam engines 2 × screw propellers
Speed	20.1 knots (37.2 km/h; 23.1 mph)
Range	4,000–6,000 nmi (7,408–11,112 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	736
Armament	4 × 343 mm (13.5 in) guns 8 × 152 mm (6 in) guns 16 × 120 mm (4.7 in) guns 20 × 57 mm (2.2 in) six-pounder guns 10 × 37 mm (1.5 in) guns 5 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes
Armor	Belt and side: 102 mm (4 in) Deck: 76.2 mm (3 in) Barbettes: 349 mm (13.75 in) Conning tower: 302 mm (11.88 in)

Sicilia was the second of three Re Umberto-class ironclad battleships built for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy). The ship, named for the island of Sicily, was laid down in Venice in November 1884, launched in July 1891, and completed in May 1895. She was armed with a main battery of four 343 mm (13.5 in) guns and had a top speed of 20.3 knots (37.6 km/h; 23.4 mph), though this high speed came at the cost of armor protection.

Sicilia spent the first decade of her career in the Active Squadron of the Italian fleet. Thereafter, she was transferred to the Reserve Squadron, and by 1911, she was part of the Training Division. She took part in the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–1912, where she escorted convoys to North Africa and supported Italian forces ashore by bombarding Ottoman troops. She was thereafter used as a depot ship for the new dreadnought battleship Giulio Cesare. During World War I, she continued in service as a depot ship, and later in the war she was converted into a repair ship. Sicilia was stricken in 1923 and subsequently broken up for scrap.