 Emanuele Filiberto firing her main battery
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| History | |
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| Name | Emanuele Filiberto |
| Namesake | Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta |
| Operator | Regia Marina |
| Builder | Regio Cantiere di Castellammare di Stabia |
| Laid down | 5 October 1893 |
| Launched | 29 September 1897 |
| Completed | 16 April 1902 |
| Commissioned | 6 September 1901 |
| Stricken | 29 March 1920 |
| 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 | 7.27 m (23 ft 10 in) |
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| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 18.1 knots (33.5 km/h; 20.8 mph) |
| Range | 5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 565 |
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The Emanuele Filiberto was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) during the 1890s. Her keel was laid down in October 1893 and she was launched in September 1897; work was completed in April 1902. She had one sister ship, Ammiraglio di Saint Bon, the lead ship of the Ammiraglio di Saint Bon class. She was armed with a main battery of four 254 mm (10 in) guns and was capable of a speed in excess of 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph).
Emanuele Filiberto 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 assaults on Tripoli in North Africa and on the island of Rhodes in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. She was obsolescent by World War I and was slated to be broken up in 1914–1915, but the need for warships granted Emanuele Filiberto a respite. She spent the war as a harbor defense ship in Venice. She was stricken from the naval register in June 1920 and subsequently broken up for scrap.