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The Francesco Caracciolo-class battleships were a group of four battleships designed for the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) in 1913 and ordered in 1914; the first ship of the class, Francesco Caracciolo, was laid down that year. The other three ships, Cristoforo Colombo, Marcantonio Colonna, and Francesco Morosini, were laid down in 1915. Armed with a main battery of eight 381 mm guns and possessing a top speed of 28 kn, the four ships were intended to be the equivalent of the British Queen Elizabeth-class battleship. They were never completed, due to material shortages and shifting priorities after the start of World War I in 1914. Only the lead ship was launched; several proposals to convert the battleship into an aircraft carrier were considered, but budgetary problems prevented any work being done. The vessel was sold for conversion into a merchant ship, but was broken up for scrap beginning in 1926.

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Hi Sturm and congratulations. A draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits from you or from anyone else interested are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 14:46, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I have a bad habit of referring to the "outbreak" of a war; from all reports, the shooting isn't much like the spread of a disease. Added link to WWI as I distrust the depth of people's knowledge base.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 00:48, 1 March 2020 (UTC)