Italian ironclad Palestro
Palestro at anchor in La Spezia in 1887
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 Kingdom of Italy
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| Name: | Palestro |
| Namesake: | Palestro |
| Laid down: | August 1865 |
| Launched: | 30 September or 2 October 1871 |
| Completed: | 11 July 1875 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1902–04 |
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| Class and type: | Principe Amedeo-class ironclad warship |
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| Length: | 78.82 m (258 ft 7 in) |
| Beam: | 17.3 m (56 ft 9 in) |
| Draft: | 8 m (26 ft 3 in) |
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| Propulsion: | One single-expansion steam engines |
| Speed: | 12.85 knots (23.80 km/h; 14.79 mph) |
| Range: | 1,780 nmi (3,300 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 548 |
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Palestro was an ironclad warship, the second and final member of the Principe Amedeo class, built for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in the 1860s and 1870s. She was armed with a battery of six 10 in (254 mm) guns and one 11 in (279 mm) gun. The last sail-rigged ironclad of the Italian fleet, she had a single steam engine that was capable of propelling the ship at a speed of slightly over 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph).
Obsolescent before she entered service, Palestro had an uneventful career. She served primarily in Italy's colonial empire and did not see action. In 1880, she took part in an international naval demonstration off Ragusa to enforce the Treaty of Berlin. Palestro was employed in the defense of La Maddalena from 1889 to 1894, and thereafter as a training ship. She was stricken from the naval register in 1900 and broken up for scrap in 1902–1904.
Palestro was 78.82 meters (258.6 ft) long between perpendiculars; she had a beam of 17.3 m (57 ft) and an average draft of 8 m (26 ft). She displaced 5,761 metric tons (5,670 long tons; 6,350 short tons) normally and up to 6,318 t (6,218 long tons; 6,964 short tons) at full load. Her propulsion system consisted of one single-expansion steam engine that drove a single screw propeller, with steam supplied by six coal-fired, cylindrical fire-tube boilers. Her engine produced a top speed of 12.85 knots (23.80 km/h; 14.79 mph) at 6,117 indicated horsepower (4,561 kW). She could steam for 1,780 nautical miles (3,300 km; 2,050 mi) at a speed of 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph). The ship was barque-rigged to supplement the steam engine; Palestro and her sister were the last rigged ironclads to be built by Italy. She had a crew of 548 officers and men.
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