Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci
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 The Leonardo Da Vinci in 1914 | |
| Career (Italy) | Image:Flag of Italy (1861-1946) crowned.svg |
|---|---|
| Laid down: | 1910 |
| Launched: | 1911
<tr valign=top><td>Commissioned:</td><td>1915</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Recommissioned:</td><td>1937</td></tr> |
| Status: | Scrapped 1923 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 23,088 tons standard, 25,086 tons full load |
| Length: | 168.9 - 176.1 m |
| Beam: | 28 m
<tr valign=top><td>Draught:</td><td>9.4 m</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Propulsion:</td><td>20 boilers, 4 shafts, 31,000 hp</td></tr> |
| Speed: | 21.5 knots (41 km/h)
<tr valign=top><td>Range:</td><td>4,800 miles at 10 knots</td></tr> |
| Complement: | 1,000
<tr valign=top><td>Armament:</td><td>13 x 305/46 mm |
The battleship Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Conte di Cavour class battleship of the Regia Marina. It was 170 metres long (small for a battleship). Its twenty boilers and four shafts generated 24 MW and gave a top speed of 11 m/s (41 km/h, 21 knots, 25 mph). It was crewed by about 1000 men.
It was built between July 18 1910 and May 17 1914. It was capsized in an explosion caused by Austrian sabotage on August 2 1916, in Taranto harbour. The explosion killed 249 of her crew. After World War I, it was salvaged, but repairs were never finished, and it was sold for scrap in 1923.
