Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci
- Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci
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 18 July 1910 and 17 May 1914. It was capsized in an explosion blamed by the Italian authorities on Austrian sabotage on 2 August 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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