Italian battleship Lepanto

Lepanto in La Spezia
History
Italy
Name:	Lepanto
Namesake:	The Battle of Lepanto (1571)
Operator:	Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy)
Builder:	Cantiere navale fratelli Orlando, Livorno
Laid down:	4 November 1876
Launched:	17 March 1883
Completed:	16 August 1887
Struck:	26 May 1912
Reinstated:	13 January 1913
Struck:	15 January 1914
Fate:	Sold for scrapping 27 March 1915
Notes:	Served as training ship 1902–1910 Served as depot ship 1910–1912
General characteristics
Class and type:	Italia-class ironclad battleship
Displacement:	13,336 t (13,125 long tons; 14,700 short tons) normal 15,649 t (15,402 long tons; 17,250 short tons) full load
Beam:	22.34 m (73.3 ft)
Draft:	9.39 m (30.8 ft)
Installed power:	15,797 ihp (11,780 kW) 8 oval and 16 cylindrical boilers
Propulsion:	4 shafts, 4 compound engines
Speed:	18.4 knots (34.1 km/h; 21.2 mph)
Range:	ca. 5,000 nautical miles (9,260 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	669–701
Armament:	4 × 17-inch (432 mm)/27 guns 8 × 6-inch (152 mm)/32 guns 4 × 4.7-inch (119 mm)/32 guns 4 × 14-inch (356 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor:	Deck: 4 in (102 mm) Barbette: 19 in (483 mm) Conning tower: 4 in

Lepanto was an Italian ironclad battleship built for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy), the second and last ship of the Italia class. Lepanto was laid down in November 1876, launched in March 1883, and completed in August 1887. She was armed with a main battery of four 17 in (432 mm) guns mounted in a central barbette and was capable of a top speed of 17.8 knots (33.0 km/h; 20.5 mph). Unlike other capital ships of the era, Lepanto had an armored deck rather than the more typical belt armor.

Lepanto spent the first two decades of her career in the Active and Reserve Squadrons, where she took part in annual training maneuvers with the rest of the fleet. In 1902, she was withdrawn from service for use as a training ship. During the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–12, the ship provided fire support to Italian troops defending Tripoli in Libya. Lepanto was ultimately stricken from the naval register in January 1914 and sold for scrapping in March 1915.

Lepanto was 124.7 meters (409 ft) long overall and had a beam of 22.34 m (73.3 ft) and an average draft of 9.39 m (30.8 ft). She displaced 13,336 metric tons (13,125 long tons; 14,700 short tons) normally and up to 15,649 t (15,402 long tons; 17,250 short tons) at full load. Her propulsion system consisted of four compound steam engines each driving a single screw propeller, with steam supplied by eight coal-fired, oval boilers and sixteen fire-tube boilers. Her engines produced a top speed of 18.4 knots (34.1 km/h; 21.2 mph) at 15,797 indicated horsepower (11,780 kW). She could steam for 5,000 nautical miles (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at a speed of 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph). She had a crew of 669–701 officers and men.

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