 Ammiraglio di Saint Bon
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| Class overview | |
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| Name | Ammiraglio di Saint Bon class |
| Operators |  Regia Marina |
| Preceded by | Re Umberto class |
| Succeeded by | Regina Margherita class |
| Built | 1893–1902 |
| In commission | 1901–1920 |
| Completed | 2 |
| Retired | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 111.8 m (366 ft 10 in) |
| Beam | 21.12 m (69 ft 3 in) |
| Draft | 7.69 m (25 ft 3 in) |
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| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 18.3 knots (33.9 km/h; 21.1 mph) |
| Range | 5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 557 |
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The Ammiraglio di Saint Bon class was a pair of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) during the 1890s. The class comprised two ships: Ammiraglio di Saint Bon, the lead ship, and Emanuele Filiberto. They were armed with a main battery of four 254 mm (10 in) guns and were capable of a top speed of 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph). Smaller and less powerfully-armed than most contemporary battleships, they marked a brief departure from Italian capital ship design, which had previously emphasized large ships equipped with large guns.
Both ships served in the active duty squadron early in their careers, and participated in the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–1912. They took part in the Italian offensives in North Africa and the island of Rhodes, but did not see combat with the Ottoman fleet. They were reduced to harbor defense ships by the outbreak of World War I, and they spent the war in Venice. The ships were discarded shortly after the end of the war, both having been stricken in 1920.