 Re di Portogallo or her sister Re d'Italia
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| History | |
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| Name | Re di Portogallo |
| Namesake | Luís I of Portugal |
| Builder | William H. Webb, New York City |
| Laid down | December 1861 |
| Launched | 29 August 1863 |
| Completed | 23 August 1864 |
| Stricken | 31 March 1875 |
| Fate | Broken up for scrap |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Re d'Italia-class armored frigate |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 99.61 m (326 ft 10 in) |
| Beam | 16.76 m (55 ft) |
| Draft | 7.18 m (23 ft 7 in) |
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| Propulsion |
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| Sail plan | Barque-rigged |
| Speed | 10.6 to 10.8 knots (19.6 to 20.0 km/h; 12.2 to 12.4 mph) |
| Range | 1,800 nmi (3,300 km; 2,100 mi) at 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph) |
| Complement | 552 |
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| Armor | Belt: 121 mm (4.75 in) |
Re di Portogallo was an ironclad warship built for the Italian Regia Marina in the 1860s, the second and final member of the Re d'Italia class. She was laid down at the William H. Webb Shipyard in New York in December 1861, was launched in August 1863, and was completed a year later in August 1864; the two Re d'Italia-class ships were the only Italian ironclads built in the United States. The ships were broadside ironclads, armed with a battery of six 72-pounder guns and thirty-two 164 mm (6.5 in) guns.
Re di Portogallo saw action at the Battle of Lissa during the Third Italian War of Independence in 1866. She engaged several Austrian wooden vessels in the melee, including ship of the line Kaiser, which rammed Re di Portogallo but inflicted no significant damage. The ship's career after the war was very limited; in 1871, she was converted into a training ship. By 1875, her wooden hull was found to have deteriorated badly, and so she was broken up for scrap.