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1018

ITALY

Battle Fleet.

Name

.2 o

! °

Armour

2

Principal Armament

1 ? !

g? 3 9 i "a*. g£ I f * | 8 l )et,d

1909 1910

1912

Dreadnoughts.

Dante Alighierl

. ! 19,000 9J

1

  • »

12 12in. ; 20 4'7in

|Conte di Cavour \Qiulio Cesare .

• WoC'l 91

9J

13 12in. ; is 4 ; 7in

/Duilio (Andrea Poria

1 ' 1} 22,502 j 9j

91

13 12in. 16 6iu.

3 34,000 3 24,000

i 3 25,000

knots 23

1901

IVittorio Emanuele Regina Elena . Napoli Roma

Pre-Dreadno-ugh ts.

2 12iu.; 12 8in.

i 19,000 \ , 19,298 ! | M 19,000 20,000 i

1897

(Varese

\F. Kerruecio

/S. Giorgio {S. Marco . (.Pisa .

Armoured Cruiser t.

1 7,850

6

~

} 9,833 10,118

6j

1 lOin.; 8 ! n.; 14 Oin.

  • lOin.; 8 7-5iu.

13,886

18,635

f 1 18,000 | 20,000 19,000

s i I 20,000

} 20 } 22'

Light Cruisers.

1911

Libia

3,690

_

' —

2 6in. ; 8 4 - 7in.

2

12,5001 22

1912

Campania

2,460

6 tiin. ; 5 8in.

4,0001 16-5

1912

Ancona

4,842

7 5-<»in. ; 3 4iu.

2

20,000 27 -r,

1912

Strassburg

4.4SO

2

7 6-9in. ; 2 34in.

3

84,000 28

1913

Pillau

4,320

8 5-Oin. ; 2 3iu.

t

27,400 27-5

1911 1911

Helgoland Saida

[ 3,500

-

9 8-Mb.

I

26,000 27

The Ancona and two following are ex-German vessels, and the last two ex -Austrian vessels. The older Italian cruisers are the Campania, Liguria, and Puglia. There are 13 modern scouts or flotilla leaders, ranging upward from 1,000 tons to 3,400 tons, and a speed from 28 to 85 knots. Their guns are from 4in. to 6'9in. One of them is the Premnda, ex-German V. 116.

The large flotillas of destroyers are composed of 30 and 35 knot vessels, very effective in character, and thero are flotillas of quite modern toipedo-