An item reported that the Italian engineer Cuniberti ordered to design a new battleship with a displacement of 17.000 tons and a main armament of 12-30,5cm guns to which a large number of smaller guns were to be added. Building costs estimated 50 million lire. Speed 24 knots.
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1. Vittorio Emanuele Cuniberti (1854 Torino-1913 Rome, Italy), naval engineer and major general, who envisioned the concept of the so-called all bug guns ship which became known a the dreadnought named after the British HMS Dreadnought. His article ‘An Ideal Battleship for the British Fleet’ was published in the 1903 Jane’s Fighting Ships edition. For budget reasons was his design not used by the Italian navy.
