&sq=&lang=&file=File:Italian_battleship_Roma_(1907).jpg) Roma at anchor in Constantinople (November 1918)
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| History | |
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| Name | Roma |
| Namesake | Rome |
| Operator | Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy) |
| Builder | Arsenale di La Spezia |
| Laid down | 20 September 1903 |
| Launched | 21 April 1907 |
| Completed | 17 December 1908 |
| Stricken | 3 September 1926 |
| Fate | Broken up for scrap |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Regina Elena-class pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Displacement | 13,772 long tons (13,993 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 | 22.15 knots (41.02 km/h; 25.49 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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Roma was an Italian pre-dreadnought battleship, laid down in 1903, launched in 1907 and completed in 1908. She was the third member of the Regina Elena class, which included three other vessels: Regina Elena, Napoli, and Vittorio Emanuele. Roma 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).
Roma saw action in the Italo-Turkish War in 1911 and 1912; she took part in the attack on Benghazi, and the amphibious assaults on the islands of Rhodes and the Dodecanese in the Aegean Sea. Roma remained in service during World War I in 1915–1918, but saw no action as a result of the cautious policies of both the Italian and Austro-Hungarian navies. She remained in the Italian inventory until she was stricken from the naval register in September 1926 and was subsequently broken up for scrap.