Talk:Italia-class ironclad

Troop capability
About the 10,000 troop capability, this is an absurdity. Never those ships were used as 'troop transport', but just imagine how a 400 ft ship could ever accomodate 10,000 men! Not even a great ocean liner could do this, so i wonder how this number came off. It's impossible and never demostrated, anyway. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.135.245.89 (talk) 02:29, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Save for later
This has some details on the design of the ships. Parsecboy (talk) 11:33, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Conversion of measurements
The 57mm guns added during the initial alterations are shown converted to 2.2 inches calibre.

Properly, the 57mm was an approximately six-pounder gun, and was of roughly two-and-a-quarter inch calibre, compared to the contemporary 'three-inch' twelve-pounder gun. Thus it was of half the shell weight and three-quarters the bore.

Correct conversion of 57mm to inches is 2.24409 inches; very close to the rule-of-thumb two-&-a-quarter inches.

"2.2" hardly conveys the relationship of the two calibres under the old system in a very clear way at all.

Recommend changing the conversion format to two decimal places to improve this, given the context.

2A00:23C7:3119:AD01:606D:10BE:D964:6CCF (talk) 20:42, 18 June 2023 (UTC)