Regina Margherita on speed trials in July 1904
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History | |
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Italy | |
Name | Regina Margherita |
Namesake | Margherita of Savoy |
Builder | Arsenale di La Spezia |
Laid down | 20 November 1898 |
Launched | 30 May 1901 |
Completed | 14 April 1904 |
Fate | Sunk by mines 11 December 1916 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Regina Margherita-class pre-dreadnought battleship |
Displacement | |
Length | 138.65 m (454 ft 11 in) |
Beam | 23.84 m (78 ft 3 in) |
Draft | 9 m (29 ft 6 in) |
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Propulsion | |
Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Range | 10,000 nmi (18,520 km; 11,508 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 812/900 |
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Regina Margherita was the lead ship of her class of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Italian Regia Marina between 1898 and 1904. She had one sister ship, Benedetto Brin. Regina Margherita saw action in the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–1912. By the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the battleship had been reduced to a training ship. She struck two naval mines on the night of 11–12 December 1916 while steaming off Valona. She sank with heavy loss of life: 675 men were killed, and only 270 survived.