 Venezia at anchor in 1876
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| History | |
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 Kingdom of Italy | |
| Name | Venezia |
| Namesake | Venice |
| Builder | Cantiere della Foce |
| Laid down | February 1863 |
| Launched | 21 January 1869 |
| Completed | 1 April 1873 |
| Stricken | 1895 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1895–1896 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Roma-class ironclad warship |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 79.65 m (261 ft 4 in) |
| Beam | 17.48 m (57 ft 4 in) |
| Draft | 7.6 m (24 ft 11 in) |
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| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Range | 1,940 nmi (3,590 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 549–551 |
| Armament | 18 × 254 mm (10 in) guns |
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Venezia was the second of two Roma-class ironclad warships built for the Italian Regia Marina in the 1860s. She was armed with a main battery of eighteen 254 mm (10 in) guns in a central armored casemate. Her lengthy construction time, a result of her re-design from a broadside ironclad, quickly rendered her obsolescent compared to the new turret ships that began to enter service in the 1880s. As a result, her career was limited. She became a training ship in 1881 and served until 1895. Venezia was broken up for scrap the next year.