Regina Margherita Class Battleships Class Overview

Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Arsenale di La Spezia
La Spezia, Italy

May 30, 1901
Apr. 14, 1904
Fate
Sunk Dec. 11, 1916 by a mine laid by SMS UC-14.

Location: Adriatic Sea off Vlorë, Albania.
(Wreck located in 2005)

674 crewmen were killed, about 270 survivors.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Benedetto Brin
Cantieri Castellammare di Stabia
Castellammare di Stabia, Italy

Nov. 7, 1901
Sept. 1, 1905
Fate
Destroyed by explosion Sept. 27, 1915 (sabotage).
(Four crewmen Achille Moschini, Guglielom Bartolini, Marlo Azzori all and a soldier,
Giorgio Carpi, were charged in 1918 with setting the explosives. Several
Austrians and Germans were implicated in the plot having been paid to organize the
destruction of the ship.)

Location: Brindisi Harbor, Italy.

646 crewmen killed, 324 survivors.
(The dead included Rear Admiral Rubin de Cervin and Captain Fara Forni)
(Casualty figures vary, the above was reported July 11, 1918 during the Italian
court-martial proceedings.)