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Francesco Morosini, Italian Aircraft Carrier laid down 1920

Displacement:
25,934 t light; 26,573 t standard; 29,018 t normal; 30,858 t full load
Loading submergence 1,344 tons/feet

Dimensions:
715.00 ft x 98.20 ft x 26.30 ft (normal load)
217.93 m x 29.93 m x 8.02 m

Armament:
22 - 4.00" / 102 mm guns
32 - 0.52" / 13 mm guns
Weight of broadside 706 lbs / 320 kg

Armour:
Belt 5.91" / 150 mm, upper belt 3.94" / 100 mm, ends unarmoured
Belts cover 92 % of normal area
Armour deck 3.94" / 100 mm, Conning tower 2.95" / 75 mm
Torpedo bulkhead 1.97" / 50 mm

Machinery:
Oil fired boilers, steam turbines,
Geared drive, 4 shafts, 125,319 shp / 93,488 Kw = 30.00 kts
Range 4,500nm at 20.00 kts

Complement:
1,111 - 1,445

Cost:
£3.771 million / $15.083 million

Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 88 tons, 0.3 %
Armour: 6,224 tons, 21.4 %
Belts: 1,847 tons, 6.4 %, Armament: 0 tons, 0.0 %, Armour Deck: 3,426 tons, 11.8 %
Conning Tower: 60 tons, 0.2 %, Torpedo bulkhead: 890 tons, 3.1 %
Machinery: 4,382 tons, 15.1 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 9,740 tons, 33.6 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 3,084 tons, 10.6 %
Miscellaneous weights: 5,500 tons, 19.0 %

Metacentric height 7.0

Remarks:
Hull space for machinery, storage & compartmentation is adequate
Room for accommodation & workspaces is excellent
Ship has slow, easy roll, a good, steady gun platform
Excellent seaboat, comfortable and able to fight her guns in the heaviest weather

Estimated overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Relative margin of stability: 1.22
Shellfire needed to sink: 45,165 lbs / 20,487 Kg = 1,411.4 x 4.0 " / 102 mm shells
(Approx weight of penetrating shell hits needed to sink ship excluding critical hits)
Torpedoes needed to sink: 5.7
(Approx number of typical torpedo hits needed to sink ship)
Relative steadiness as gun platform: 74 %
(Average = 50 %)
Relative rocking effect from firing to beam: 0.03
Relative quality as seaboat: 1.89

Hull form characteristics:
Block coefficient: 0.550
Sharpness coefficient: 0.39
Hull speed coefficient 'M': 7.12
'Natural speed' for length: 26.74 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 54 %
Trim: 39
(Maximise stabilty/flotation = 0, Maximise steadiness/seakeeping = 100)

Estimated hull characteristics & strength:
Underwater volume absorbed by magazines and engineering spaces: 91.4 %
Relative accommodation and working space: 274.2 %
(Average = 100%)
Displacement factor: 137 %
(Displacement relative to loading factors)
Relative cross-sectional hull strength: 0.96
(Structure weight / hull surface area: 131 lbs / square foot or 641 Kg / square metre)
Relative longitudinal hull strength: 2.02
(for 34.00 ft / 10.36 m average freeboard, freeboard adjustment 15.26 ft)
Relative composite hull strength: 1.03

Airgroup of 72 can be carried: 3 squadrons of 12 Fighters. 3 squadrons of 12 Bombers. 1 squadron of 12 Torpedo bombers.