 Ammiraglio di Saint Bon underway
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| History | |
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| Name | Ammiraglio di Saint Bon |
| Namesake | Simone Antonio Saint-Bon |
| Operator | Regia Marina |
| Builder | Venetian Arsenal |
| Laid down | 18 July 1893 |
| Launched | 29 April 1897 |
| Completed | 24 May 1901 |
| Commissioned | 1 February 1901 |
| Stricken | 18 June 1920 |
| Fate | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Ammiraglio di Saint Bon-class 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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Ammiraglio di Saint Bon was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) built during the 1890s. She was laid down in July 1893, launched in April 1897, and completed in May 1901. She was the lead ship of her class, and had one sister ship, Emanuele Filiberto. The ship was armed with a main battery of four 254 mm (10 in) guns and was capable of a top speed of 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph).
Ammiraglio di Saint Bon served in the active squadron of the Italian navy for the first several years of her career. She was assigned to the 3rd Division during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–1912. During the war, she was involved in the seizure of the island of Rhodes, where she provided gunfire support to Italian infantry. The ship was obsolescent by World War I and was slated to be broken up in 1914–1915, but the need for warships granted Ammiraglio di Saint Bon a respite. She spent the war as a harbor defense ship in Venice and, after April 1916, was used primarily as a floating anti-aircraft battery. She was stricken from the naval register in June 1920 and subsequently broken up for scrap.