.jpg) Andrea Doria on 18 April 1899.
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| History | |
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| Name | Andrea Doria |
| Namesake | Andrea Doria |
| Operator | Regia Marina |
| Builder | Arsenale di La Spezia |
| Laid down | 7 January 1882 |
| Launched | 21 November 1885 |
| Completed | 16 May 1891 |
| Stricken | 25 May 1911 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1929 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Ruggiero di Lauria-class ironclad battleship |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 105.9 m (347 ft 5 in) length overall |
| Beam | 19.84 m (65 ft 1 in) |
| Draft | 8.32 m (27 ft 4 in) |
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| Speed | 16.1 knots (29.8 km/h; 18.5 mph) |
| Endurance | 2,800 nmi (5,186 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 507–509 |
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Andrea Doria was an ironclad battleship built for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in the 1880s and 1890s. Named for the 16th-century Genoese admiral Andrea Doria, she was the third and final ship of the Ruggiero di Lauria class. The ship was armed with a main battery of four 432 mm (17 in) guns, was protected with 451 mm (17.75 in) thick belt armor, and was capable of a top speed of 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph).
The ship's construction period was very lengthy, beginning in August 1881 and completing in February 1888. She was quickly rendered obsolescent by the new pre-dreadnought battleships being laid down, and as a result, her career was limited. She spent her career alternating between the Active and Reserve Squadrons, where she took part in training exercises each year with the rest of the fleet. Andrea Doria was stricken from the naval register in 1911 and used as a depot ship until Italy entered World War I in 1915. The ship was renamed GR 104 and employed as a guard ship in Brindisi. She was converted into a floating oil tank after the war and was eventually broken up for scrap in 1929.