She had a crew of 507–509 officers and men.

The ship was fitted with a single, heavy military mast placed amidships. Her superstructure included a small conning tower with a bridge on the forecastle. The ship had a short forecastle, connected by a hurricane deck to a raised sterncastle. She displaced 9,886 long tons (10,045 t) normally and up to 11,027 long tons (11,204 t) at full load. Line-drawing of the Ruggiero di Lauria classĪndrea Doria was 105.9 meters (347 ft 5 in) long overall and had a beam of 19.84 m (65 ft 1 in) and an average draft of 8.29 m (27 ft 2 in). She was converted into a floating oil tank after the war and was eventually broken up for scrap in 1929. The ship was renamed GR 104 and employed as a guard ship in Brindisi. Andrea Doria was stricken from the naval register in 1911 and used as a depot ship until Italy entered World War I in 1915. She spent her career alternating between the Active and Reserve Squadrons, where she took part in training exercises each year with the rest of the fleet. She was quickly rendered obsolescent by the new pre-dreadnought battleships being laid down, and as a result, her career was limited.

The ship's construction period was very lengthy, beginning in August 1881 and completing in February 1888. The ship was armed with a main battery of four 432 mm (17 in) guns, was protected with 451 mm (17.75 in) thick belt armor, and was capable of a top speed of 17 knots (31 km/h 20 mph). Named for the 16th-century Genoese admiral Andrea Doria, she was the third and final ship of the Ruggiero di Lauria class. Ruggiero di Lauria-class ironclad battleshipĢ,800 nmi (5,186 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h 12 mph)Īndrea Doria was an ironclad battleship built for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) in the 1880s and 1890s.

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