Venezia (ship, 1873)
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The Venezia was an Italian steam-powered tank frigate 1st rank with screw of the Roma class and at the same time the first battleship of the Regia Marina named after the city of Venice . It was commissioned in 1873. After years of service, it became a torpedo training ship in 1881 and remained in this role until it was demolished in 1895.
history
The Venezia was the second of two ships of the same class of 1st class armored frigates and, like its structurally identical sister and class ship Roma, the first ship of this type to be built in Italy . The armored frigate was also the first battleship of the Regia Marina , the Royal Italian Navy established in 1861, to be named after the city of Venice .
Like the Roma , it had a wooden hull with removable 150 mm thick side armor and a triple expansion steam engine as a drive . The ship also had three masts and was rigged as a full ship .
The Venezia was put under construction in 1863 at the Foce shipyard in Genoa , and it was launched in 1869. Four years later, in 1873, it was completed and put into service.
After many years of service in the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Adriatic , the Venezia became a torpedo training ship in 1881 until it was decommissioned and demolished in 1895.
commitment
Like the Roma, the steam-powered armored frigate Venezia saw no war effort. After many years of service in the surveillance of the Tyrrhenian Sea and some voyages in the Adriatic Sea as well as escort for larger units (more rarely also for merchant ships), she later mostly sailed in coastal waters. Roma sank some ships of privateers from North Africa and the Ottoman Empire which did not surrender without resistance. Until 1881 several missions took place together with her sister ship Roma from 1868, when she was used as a torpedo training ship of the Regia Marina until her end of her career.
Technical specifications
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| Country of origin | Italy | |
| Ship type | 1st class armored frigate | |
| Ship class | Roma class | |
| Shipyard | Cantieri Navali Foce , Genoa | |
| Construction contract | 1863 | |
| Keel laying | 1863 | |
| Launch | 1865 | |
| Commissioning | 1868 | |
| building-costs | ? | |
| Ship motto | ? | |
| Whereabouts | Canceled in 1896 |
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| displacement | ||
| Standard displacement | 5,700 t | |
| Displacement | 5,814 t | |
| Maximum displacement | 6,250 t | |
| Dimensions | ||
| Length over all | ? | |
| Waterline length (KWL) | 79.6 m | |
| Width over everything | 17.5 m | |
| Height above freeboard | ? | |
| Height above everything | ? | |
| Draft (standard) | 7.0 m | |
| Draft (maximum) | 7.6 m | |
| Propulsion system | ||
| Drive type | Steam engine | |
| Boiler system | 6 coal-fired steam boilers | |
| Steam engine | Triple expansion steam engine with direct drive |
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| Shafts & screws | 1 shaft, 1 three-wing screw | |
| power | 3,670 PSi (2,697 kW ) | |
| Fuel supply | 580 t of hard coal | |
| Fuel consumption | ? | |
| control | ||
| Steering gear | 1 rudder in the stern | |
| Performance | ||
| Top speed | 13 kn (24 km / h ) | |
| Marching speed | 8 kn (14 km / h) | |
| Power to weight ratio | 1.55 t / PS | |
| Range | 1,940 nm at 10 kn | |
| Armament | ||
| Cannons | 12 × 160 mm (also other guns or calibers ) |
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| Armor | ||
| Side armor (vertical) | 150 mm | |
| Battery deck (horizontal) | 120 mm | |
| crew | ||
| Normal crew | 550 men | |