Conte di Cavour Class Battleship (1911)

Italy's three Conte di Cavour class dreadnoughts were delivered in 1914-15 – successors to the nation's first dreadnought-type ship, Dante Alighieri. One would be lost to Austro-Hungarian sabotage at anchor in Taranto harbour during the war.

The class introduced super-firing turrets to the Italian navy, positioning two of the five turrets as twins firing over triples, fore and aft, with another triple amidships.

Overview of 3 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Completed	Fate
Conte di Cavour	La Spezia Arsenale	10 Aug, 1910	10 Aug, 1911		Sunk 12 Nov, 1940
Giulio Cesare	Giovanni Ansaldo & Company, Genoa	24 Jun, 1910	15 Oct, 1911	14 May, 1914	Transferred 1948
Leonardo da Vinci	Cantieri Navali Odero, Setri Ponente	18 Jul, 1910	14 Oct, 1911		Sunk 2 Aug, 1916

Design

The ships had a peculiarly tall barbette under the super-firing "B" turret which must have come at great cost to the design in terms of weight.

See Also

• Wikipedia