Maritime History

Italian ironclad Venezia

Venezia was the second of two Roma-class ironclad warships built for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in the 1860s. She was armed with a main battery of eighteen 254 mm (10 in) guns in a central armored casemate. Her lengthy construction time, a result of her re-design from a broadside ironclad, quickly rendered her obsolescent compared to the new turret ships that began to enter service in the 1880s. As a result, her career was limited. She became a training ship in 1881 and served until 1895. Venezia was broken up for scrap the next year.

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See also

• ▸French frigate Aigle (1782)
• ▸Cecily of York
• ▸Constanța

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