An item referred to the magazine Reviste Nautica which reported that the displacement of the Dante Aligieri would increase around 1.200 tons compared to the original design. As a result was the draught 0.4 metres more as the projected load line and so also the armour extending 0,4 metres lower below the surface. The projected speed would as a result decrease. The planning to decrease the number of 12cm guns with four and not to built one planned large deckhouse.(1)
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1. First Italian dreadnought battleship. Preceded by the Regina Elena-class and succeeded by the Conte di Cavour-class. Laid down at the Castellammare di Stabia navy yard on 6 June 1909, launched on 20 August 1910, completed on 15 January 1913, modernized in 1923, stricken on 1 July 1928 and finally broken up in that same year. She was designed by the Italian rear admiral engineer Edoardo Masdea (1) at that moment Chief Constructor of the Italian navy using the ideas of general Vittorio Cuniberti (2). The intention was to built a battleship with a main armament of the same calibre to be used for broadside fire and as much possible limited superstructure.
