 Roma at anchor in September 1870
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| History | |
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 Kingdom of Italy | |
| Name | Roma |
| Namesake | Rome |
| Laid down | February 1863 |
| Launched | 18 December 1865 |
| Completed | May 1869 |
| Stricken | 1895 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1896 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Roma-class ironclad warship |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 79.67 m (261 ft 5 in) |
| Beam | 17.33 m (56 ft 10 in) |
| Draft | 7.57 m (24 ft 10 in) |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Range | 1,940 nmi (3,590 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 549–551 |
| Armament |
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| Armor | Belt armor: 150 mm (5.9 in) |
Roma was an ironclad warship built for the Italian Regia Marina in the 1860s; she was the lead ship of the Roma-class ironclads. Armed with a main battery of five 254 mm (10 in) and twelve 203 mm (8 in) guns in a broadside arrangement, Roma was obsolescent by the time she entered service. As a result, her career was limited. In 1880, she took part in an international naval demonstration off Ragusa to enforce the Treaty of Berlin. In November 1881, she collided with the ironclad Principe Amedeo in a storm in Naples, but she was not damaged. Roma was reduced to a guard ship in 1890 and then to a depot ship in 1895. In July 1896, she was scuttled to save the ship from a fire caused by a lightning strike. She was thereafter raised and broken up for scrap.