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-