Italian ironclad Sicilia

Sicilia
History
Italy
Name:	Sicilia
Namesake:	Sicily
Builder:	Venice Naval Shipyard
Laid down:	3 November 1884
Launched:	6 June 1891
Completed:	4 May 1895
Struck:	9 July 1914
Fate:	Stricken 1923
General characteristics
Class and type:	Re Umberto-class ironclad battleship
Displacement:	13,058 long tons (13,268 t) normal 14,842 long tons (15,080 t) full load
Length:	418 ft 7.5 in (127.6 m)
Beam:	76 ft 10.5 in (23.4 m)
Draft:	28 ft 11.5 in (8.8 m)
Installed power:	19,131 ihp (14,266 kW) 18 fire-tube boilers
Propulsion:	2 shafts, compound steam engines
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:	2 × 2 - 13.5-inch (343 mm)/30 guns 8 × 1 - 6-inch (152 mm)/40 guns 16 × 1 - 4.7-inch (119 mm)/40 guns 20 × 1 - 57-millimeter (2.2 in)/43 six-pounder guns 10 × 1 - 37-millimeter (1.5 in) guns 5 × 1 - 17.7-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor:	Belt and side: 4 in (102 mm) Deck: 3 in (76.2 mm) Barbettes: 13.75 in (349 mm) Conning tower: 11.88 in (302 mm)

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 13.5-inch (340 mm) 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 1911–12, 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.

Sicilia was 127.6 meters (419 ft) long overall; she had a beam of 23.44 m (76.9 ft) and an average draft of 8.83 m (29.0 ft). She displaced 13,058 metric tons (12,852 long tons; 14,394 short tons) normally and up to 14,842 t (14,608 long tons; 16,361 short tons) at full load. Her propulsion system consisted of a pair of vertical compound steam engines each driving a single screw propeller, with steam supplied by eighteen coal-fired, cylindrical fire-tube boilers. Her engines produced a top speed of 20.1 knots (37.2 km/h; 23.1 mph) at 19,131 indicated horsepower (14,266 kW). Specific figures for her cruising radius have not survived, but the ships of her class could steam for 4,000 to 6,000 nautical miles (7,400 to 11,100 km; 4,600 to 6,900 mi) at a speed of 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph). She had a crew of 736 officers and men.

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