Italian Battleships

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Name	Launch Date	Fate
Formidabile Class
Terribile	16th February 1861	Used for training and experiments. Scrapped c.1904
Formidabile	1st October 1861	Used as a training ship until scrapped c.1903.
Principe di Carignano Class
Principe di Carignano	15th September 1863	Scrapped c.1900.
Messina	20th December 1864	Scrapped c.1900.
Conte Verde	29th July 1867	Scrapped c.1900.
Re D'Italia Class
Re D'Italia	18th April 1863	Sunk on 20th July 1866.
Re Di Portogallo	29th August 1863	Scrapped c.1880.
Regina Maria Pia Class View Class
Regina Maria Pia	28th April 1863	Scrapped sometime after 1904.
San Martino	21st September 1863	Scrapped sometime after 1904.
Castelfidardo	1st August 1863	Scrapped sometime after 1910.
Ancona	17th October 1864	Scrapped sometime after 1904.

Affondatore	3rd November 1865	Stricken 1907.
Roma Class
Roma	18th December 1865	Set on fire by lightning while acting as ammunition depot, she was scuttled to avoid explosion. Scrapped in 1896.
Venezia	21st January 1869	Scrapped in 1895.
Principe Amedeo Class
Principe Amedeo	15th January 1872	Involved in defence of Taranto in 1888. Used as ammunition depot until being scrapped in 1910.
Palestro	1871	Involved in the defence of La Maddalena and later became training ship at La Spezia. Scrapped 1902.
Duilio Class View Class
Duilio	8th May 1876	Hulked and used as a floating fuel tank in 1909.
Dandolo	10th July 1878	Scrapped sometime after 1920.
Italia Class View Class
Italia	29th September 1880	Served as torpedo training ship in 1909/10. Involved in the defence of Taranto in 1914. Scrapped sometime after 1921.
Lepanto	17th March 1883	Used as gunnery training ship from 1902. Served as depot ship at La Spezia 1910-12. Scrapped on 27th March 1915.
Ruggiero di Lauria Class View Class
Ruggiero di Lauria	9th August 1884	Used as floating oil depot at La Spezia until 1943, broken up in 1946.
Francesco Morosini	30th July 1885	Used as a target and sunk on 15th September 1909.
Andrea Doria	21st November 1885	Became floating battery during WW1, scrapped in 1929.
Re Umberto Class View Class
Re Umberto	17th October 1888	Used as depot ship in Genoa in 1912. Became floating battery during WW1. Scrapped after 1920.
Sicilia	6th July 1891	Became depot ship at Taranto and then as a repair ship. Scrapped after 1923.
Sardegna	20th September 1890	Scrapped after 1923.
Saint Bon Class View Class
Ammiraglio Di Saint Bon	29th April 1897	Removed form naval list 18th June 1920.
Emanuele Filiberto	29th September 1897	Removed from the naval list 29th March 1920.
Regina Margherita Class View Class
Benedetto Brin	7th November 1901	Blew up on 27th September 1915 at Brindisi.
Regina Margherita	30th May 1901	Sunk off Valona by mines laid by the German u-boat UC14 on 11th December 1916.
Regina Elena Class View Class
Napoli	10th September 1905	Removed form naval list in 1926 and scrapped at Savona 1927-1928.
Regina Elena	11th June 1904	Laid up 16th February 1923.
Roma	21st April 1907	Laid up in September 1927 but was used as a harbour training ship until 1932.
Vittorio Emanuele	12th October 1904	Laid up 1st April 1923.
Dante Alighieri Class
Dante Alighieri	20th August 1910	Laid up 1st July 1928.
Cavour Class View Class
Conte Di Cavour	10th August 1911	Reconstructed and modernised from October 1933 until June 1937. Sunk by British torpedoes at Taranto on 12th November 1940. She was refloated and towed to Trieste and was rebuilt. Captured by the Germans on 10th September 1943 and sunk by bombs on 15th February 1945. Broken up 1947-52.
Giulio Cesare	15th October 1911	Reconstructed and modernised October 1933 to October 1937. Delivered to Russia in 1948 and renamed Novorossiisk, may either have been sunk or laid up in 1955.
Leonardo Da Vinci	14th October 1911	Blew up at Taranto on 2nd August 1916, re-floated in 1919 with plans for refitting but was eventually just sold for scrap 22nd March 1923.
Doria Class View Class
Andrea Doria	30th March 1913	Reconstructed and modernised between April 1937 and October 1940. She was removed form the naval list in November 1956.
Duilio	24th April 1913	Reconstructed and modernised between April 1937 and July 1940. Removed from the naval list 15th September 1956.
Caracciolo Class
Francesco Caracciolo	12th May 1920	Work was suspended in March 1916 and after launch the hull was sold 1920. No other ships of this class were launched.
Littorio Class View Class
Littorio	22nd August 1937	Took part at Taranto and was damaged. Renamed Italia after Mussolini was removed from power. Scrapped from 1948.
Roma	9th June 1940	Sunk on 9th September 1943 by German glider bombers.
Vittorio Veneto	2nd July 1937	Scrapped from 1948.

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