 Roma at anchor in September 1870
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| Class overview | |
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| Name | Roma class |
| Builders | Cantiere della Foce |
| Operators |  Regia Marina |
| Preceded by | Regina Maria Pia class |
| Succeeded by | Affondatore |
| Built | 1863–1873 |
| In commission | 1869–1895 |
| Completed | 2 |
| Retired | 2 |
| General characteristics [a] | |
| Type | Ironclad warship |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 79.67 m (261 ft 5 in) |
| Beam | 17.33 m (56 ft 10 in) |
| Draft | 7.57 m (24 ft 10 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 |
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| Armor | Belt armor: 150 mm (5.9 in) |
The Roma class was a pair of ironclad warships built for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in the 1860s and 1870s. The class comprised two ships, Roma and Venezia. Roma was a broadside ironclad armed with five 254 mm (10 in) and twelve 203 mm (8 in) guns, while Venezia was converted into a central battery ship during construction, armed with a much more powerful battery of eighteen 10-inch guns. Neither ship had an eventful career, due in large part to their rapid shift to obsolescence. Venezia and Roma were withdrawn from service for auxiliary duties in 1880 and 1890, respectively. Both were stricken from the naval register in 1895 and broken up for scrap the following year, Roma having been badly damaged in a fire in 1895.
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