Regina Elena on 17 May 1907, about four months before she was commissioned.
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History | |
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Italy | |
Name | Regina Elena |
Namesake | Elena of Montenegro |
Operator | Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy) |
Builder | Arsenale di La Spezia |
Laid down | 27 March 1901 |
Launched | 19 June 1904 |
Completed | 11 September 1907 |
Stricken | 16 February 1923 |
Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Regina Elena-class pre-dreadnought battleship |
Displacement | 13,807 long tons (14,029 t) |
Length | 144.6 m (474 ft) |
Beam | 22.4 m (73 ft) |
Draft | 8.58 m (28.1 ft) |
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Propulsion | |
Speed | 20.8 knots (38.5 km/h; 23.9 mph) |
Range | 10,000 nmi (19,000 km; 12,000 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 742–764 |
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Regina Elena was the lead ship of her class of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy). The ship was built by the La Spezia shipyard between 1901 and 1907, and was armed with a main battery of two 305 mm (12 in) guns and twelve 203 mm (8 in) guns. She was quite fast for the period, with a top speed of nearly 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph). Regina Elena was active in both the Italo-Turkish War with the Ottoman Empire in 1911–1912, where she participated in the Italian conquest of Cyrenaica, and World War I in 1915–1918, where she saw no action due to the threat of submarines in the narrow confines of the Adriatic Sea. She was retained for a few years after the war, but was ultimately stricken in February 1923 and broken up for scrap.