For other ships with the same name, see Italian ship Roma.
Roma at anchor in September 1870
History
Kingdom of Italy
Name
Roma
Namesake
Rome
Laid down
February 1863
Launched
18 December 1865
Completed
May 1869
Stricken
1895
Fate
Scrapped, 1896
General characteristics
Class and type
Roma-class ironclad warship
Displacement
Normal: 5,698 long tons (5,789 t)
Full load: 6,151 long tons (6,250 t)
Length
79.67 m (261 ft 5 in)
Beam
17.33 m (56 ft 10 in)
Draft
7.57 m (24 ft 10 in)
Installed power
6 fire-tube boilers
3,670 ihp (2,737 kW)
Propulsion
1 × marine steam engine
1 × screw propeller
Speed
13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Range
1,940 nmi (3,590 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement
549–551
Armament
5 × 254 mm (10 in) guns
12 × 203 mm (8 in) guns
Armor
Belt armor: 150 mm (5.9 in)
Roma was an ironclad warship built for the Italian Regia Marina in the 1860s; she was the lead ship of the Roma-class ironclads. Armed with a main battery of five 254 mm (10 in) and twelve 203 mm (8 in) guns in a broadside arrangement, Roma was obsolescent by the time she entered service. As a result, her career was limited. In 1880, she took part in an international naval demonstration off Ragusa to enforce the Treaty of Berlin. In November 1881, she collided with the ironclad Principe Amedeo in a storm in Naples, but she was not damaged. Roma was reduced to a guard ship in 1890 and then to a depot ship in 1895. In July 1896, she was scuttled to save the ship from a fire caused by a lightning strike. She was thereafter raised and broken up for scrap.
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