An item reported that the Italian engineer general Vittorio Emilio Cuniberti (7 June 1854 Turin, Italy-19 December 1913, Rome, Italy) published just voor his death an article in the Italian magazine Rivista Marittima proposing to built a torpedo battleship. With a displacement of 10,900 tons and as dimensions 446.1 x 68.10 feet. The internal combustion propulsion supplied 30,000 hp allowing a speed of 25 knots. She was to be armed with 16-12.8” torpedo tubes and 12-2.9” guns. Fore and aft was an armoured turret (15.76” thick) planned for discharging gas and fitted out with instrumentary for communication with the interior of the ship. The hull almost submerged was on the waterline protected by 15.76” thick armour decreasing the lower she got into the water. There was a singularly flat floor almost similar to that of a Thames barge. Cuniberti made two designs, the one mentioned in this text was armed with 16 tubes with a broadside fire of 8 tubes.
Source
No comments:
Post a Comment