Italian ironclad Lepanto

Lepanto in La Spezia
History
Italy
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	Normal: 13,336 long tons (13,550 t) Full load: 15,649 long tons (15,900 t)
Length	124.7 m (409 ft) length overall
Beam	22.34 m (73 ft 4 in)
Draft	9.39 m (30 ft 10 in)
Installed power	15,797 ihp (11,780 kW) 26 fire-tube boilers
Propulsion	4 × compound steam engines 4 × screw propellers
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)
Complement	37 officers 656 enlisted men
Armament	4 × 432 mm (17 in) guns 8 × 152 mm (6 in) guns 4 × 119 mm (4.7 in) guns 4 × 356 mm (14 in) torpedo tubes
Armor	Deck: 102 mm (4 in) Barbette: 483 mm (19 in) Conning tower: 102 mm

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 In 1902, she was withdrawn from service for use as a training ship.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.