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| History | |
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| Name | Lepanto |
| Namesake | The Battle of Lepanto |
| Operator | Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy) |
| Builder | Cantiere navale fratelli Orlando, Livorno |
| Laid down | 4 November 1876 |
| Launched | 17 March 1883 |
| Completed | 16 August 1887 |
| Stricken | 26 May 1912 |
| Reinstated | 13 January 1913 |
| Stricken | 15 January 1914 |
| Fate | Sold for scrapping 27 March 1915 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Italia-class ironclad battleship |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 124.7 m (409 ft) length overall |
| Beam | 22.34 m (73 ft 4 in) |
| Draft | 9.39 m (30 ft 10 in) |
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| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 18.4 knots (34.1 km/h; 21.2 mph) |
| Range | ca. 5,000 nautical miles (9,260 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
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Lepanto was an Italian ironclad battleship built for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy), the second and last ship of the Italia class. Lepanto was laid down in November 1876, launched in March 1883, and completed in August 1887. She was armed with a main battery of four 432 mm (17 in) guns mounted in a central barbette and was capable of a top speed of 17.8 knots (33.0 km/h; 20.5 mph). Unlike other capital ships of the era, Lepanto had an armored deck rather than the more typical belt armor.
Lepanto spent the first two decades of her career in the Active and Reserve Squadrons, where she took part in annual training maneuvers with the rest of the fleet. In 1902, she was withdrawn from service for use as a training ship. During the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–1912, the ship provided fire support to Italian troops defending Tripoli in Libya. Lepanto was ultimately stricken from the naval register in January 1914 and sold for scrapping in March 1915.