Italian battleship Regina Elena

Regina Elena on 17 May 1907, about four months before she was commissioned.
History
Italy
NameRegina Elena
NamesakeElena of Montenegro
OperatorRegia Marina (Italian Royal Navy)
BuilderArsenale di La Spezia
Laid down27 March 1901
Launched19 June 1904
Completed11 September 1907
Stricken16 February 1923
FateScrapped
General characteristics
Class and typeRegina Elena-class pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement13,807 long tons (14,029 t)
Length144.6 m (474 ft)
Beam22.4 m (73 ft)
Draft8.58 m (28.1 ft)
Installed power
Propulsion
Speed20.8 knots (38.5 km/h; 23.9 mph)
Range10,000 nmi (19,000 km; 12,000 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement742–764
Armament
Armor

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.