Enrico Dandolo.

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I think it is about time the poor old Italians had a mention so here are a couple of starters.

Enrico Dandolo, Battleship, built La Spezia, laid down January 6th, 1873 launched 1878.

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Giovanni Baussan, built by Armstrong Elswick,U.K. as a distilling ship and at the same time as Headquarters of the Naval Commander at Tobruk, and later, from 1/7/1916, at Brindisi, as a Depot ship for submarines.

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Etna, built by CCM, laid down 19/1/1883, launched 26/9/1885, completed 3/12/1887, discarded 15/5/1921.
Etna was converted to a training ship and was used as such from 1907 to September 1924.
In WW1 she was employed as flagship, later harbour-defence ship and subsequently as a depot ship at Taranto and at the same time as Headquarters for the Commander-in-Chief Italian fleet.