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Caio Duilio-class ironclad : ウィキペディア英語版 | Caio Duilio-class ironclad
The ''Caio Duilio'' class was a pair of ironclad turret ships built for the Royal Italian Navy (''Regia Marina'') in the 1870s. They were fitted with the largest guns available, 450 mm (17.72 in) rifled muzzle-loading guns, and were the largest, fastest and most powerful ships of their day.〔Silverstone, p. 285〕 had an uneventful career and was stricken from the Navy List in 1909 and converted into a floating oil tank. Her sister ship, , was reconstructed in the 1890s and served in World War I as a guardship in Venice and Brindisi. The ship was stricken in 1920 and subsequently scrapped. ==Design== Starting in the early 1870s, following the Italian fleet's defeat at the Battle of Lissa, the Italians began a large naval expansion program, initially aimed at countering the Austro-Hungarian Navy.〔Greene & Massignani, p. 394〕 In addition, the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 promised to restore the strategic significance of the Mediterranean; Italy would need a powerful fleet to assert its will and protect its merchant shipping in the region.〔Sondhaus, pp. 49–50〕 The program began with the ''Caio Duilio'' class, which was designed by the naval architect Benedetto Brin. Originally intended to carry Armstrong muzzle-loading guns, they were modified several times during their lengthy construction time to accommodate the largest guns that Armstrong produced, next to guns and ultimately to the 450 mm gun.〔 Brin had originally wanted to build three ships, but their great cost forced him to settle for two. At the time, Italy's industrial capacity was insufficient to build the ships out of domestic material. Everything from the iron used to build the hulls to the ships' machinery and guns had to be imported.〔Sondhaus, p. 50〕 The ''Caio Duilio'' class formed the basis for the following two ironclad designs, the , also designed by Brin and laid down in 1876, and the , designed by Giuseppe Micheli and laid down in 1881–82.〔Gardiner, pp. 340–342〕
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