Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci
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The battleship Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Conte di Cavour class battleship of the Regia Marina. It was 170 metres long (small for a battleship). Its twenty boilers and four shafts generated 24 MW and gave a top speed of 11 m/s (41 km/h, 21 knots, 25 mph). It was crewed by about 1000 men.
It was built between July 18 1910 and May 17 1914. It was capsized in an explosion caused by Austrian sabotage on August 2 1916, in Taranto harbour. The explosion killed 249 of her crew. After World War I, it was salvaged, but repairs were never finished, and it was sold for scrap in 1923.
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