Conte di Cavour class

Conte di Cavour class

The Conte di Cavour

Ship data country  Italy Ship type Battleship Construction period 1910 to 1915 Launch of the type ship August 10, 1911 Units built 3 period of service 1914 to 1955

Ship dimensions and crew length 176.1 m ( Lüa ) 169.0 m ( Lpp ) width 28.0 m Draft Max. 9.4 m displacement Construction: 23,088 tn.l. Maximum: 25,086 tn.l.   crew 1,000 to 1,197 men

Machine system machine 20 steam boilers 3 Parsons turbines Machine performance 31,000 PS (22,800 kW) Top speed 21.5 kn (40 km / h) propeller 4th

Armament 10 × 32 cm L / 46 Sk 18 × 12.0 cm L / 50 Sk 13 × 7.6 cm L / 50 Sk 3 × torpedo tube ∅ 45.0 cm Armor Belt: 80-250 mm Citadel: 130 mm upper armored deck: 30 mm lower armored deck: 24–40 mm Battery cover: 13–15 mm Barbettes: 240 mm Towers: 85–280 mm Casemates: 110-130 mm Front command tower: 100–280 mm aft command tower: 100–180 mm

The Conte-di-Cavour class was a battleship class of the Italian Navy . The class consisted of the three ships built in Genoa and La Spezia from 1910 to 1915

• Conte di Cavour (typical ship)
• Giulio Cesare
• Leonardo da Vinci (sunk in 1916)

history

On board the Leonardo da Vinci solved in 1916 cordite - propellants that had become chemically unstable, and had ignited itself, a munitions explosion from. However, the Italian Navy long insisted that Austrian saboteurs had sunk the ship with detention mines .

The two battleships Conte di Cavour and Giulio Cesare were extensively modernized from 1933 to 1937 and brought as far as possible to the technical standard of the Littorio class . They took part in the naval battle at Punta Stilo during World War II . The Conte di Cavour was badly damaged in a British air raid on the naval port of Taranto on the night of November 11th to 12th, 1940 and, despite extensive repairs, could no longer participate in war operations. The Giulio Cesare, however, was involved in a few other sea battles between the Italian and British fleets in the Mediterranean . From 1943 to 1945 it remained in Malta , in 1949 it was awarded to the Soviet Union as a reparation payment.

Technical specifications

The following technical data refer to the modernized version of the ships.

Launch of the Giulio Cesare (1911)

The Conte di Cavour in Naples in 1938

Main dimensions

• Overall length: 186.4 m
• Width overall: 28 m
• Draft: 10.4 m
• Displacement: 29,100 ts (maximum)

Propulsion system

• 8 oil-fired Yarrow steam boilers , 93,000 hp
• 2 sets of Belluzzo steam turbines ,
• 2 three-wing screws
• Top speed: 26 kn
• Range: 3,100 nm at 20 kn

Armor

• Vertical: 250 mm
• Horizontal: 135 mm
• Artillery: 280 mm
• Superstructures: 260 mm

Crew and armament

• Crew: 1,236 men
• 10 × 32.0 cm L / 44 Sk in 2 double and 2 triple towers
• 12 × 12.0 cm L / 50 Sk in double towers
• 8 × 10.0 cm L / 47 flak
• 8 × 3.7 cm L / 54 flak
• 12 × 2 cm L / 65 flak

literature

• Siegfried Breyer: Battleships and battle cruisers 1905–1970 . JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1970, ISBN 3-88199-474-2 , p. 398-402 .

Web links

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