All About Those Italian Battleships

RN Vittorio Emanuele 

(Pre-Dreadnought)

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Vittorio Emanuele was an Italian pre-dreadnought battleship, laid down in 1901, launched in 1904 and completed in 1908. She was the second member of the Regina Elena class, which included three other vessels: Regina Elena, Napoli, and Roma. Vittorio Emanuele was armed with a main battery of two 12-in. guns and twelve 8-in. guns. She was quite fast for the period, with a top speed of nearly 21 knots.

Vittorio Emaneule saw action in the Italo-Turkish War as the flagship of the 1st Division. During the war, she participated in operations in Cyrenaica and the eastern Mediterranean Sea, including the seizure of the islands of Rhodes and the Dodecanese. She served during the First World War, but saw no combat during the war due to the hesitance of both the Italian and Austro-Hungarian navies to risk their capital ships in pitched battle. She remained in service as a training ship until 1923, when she was stricken from the naval register and broken up for scrap

RN Dante Alighieri 

(Second-Generation Dreadnought)

RN Conte di Cavour 

(Third-Generation Dreadnought)

Littorio Class, Part I 

(Post-WWI Dreadnought)

Littorio Class, Part II 

(Post-WWI Dreadnought)