Italian battleship Benedetto Brin
Benedetto Brin was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Italian Regia Marina between 1899 and 1905. The ship was armed with a main battery of four guns and was capable of a top speed of . Benedetto Brin saw combat in the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–1912, including the bombardment of Tripoli in October 1911. She was destroyed by an internal explosion during World War I in September 1915, which killed over 450 of the ship's crew. Design Benedetto Brin was long overall and had a beam of and a draft of . She displaced normally and up to at full load. The ship had a flush deck and an inverted bow with a ram below the waterline. Benedetto Brin had a crew of 812 officers and enlisted men. Her propulsion system consisted of two triple expansion steam engines that drove a pair of screw propellers. Steam for the engines was provided by twenty-eight coal-fired Belleville boilers, which were vented into three funnels, two of which were placed side by side. The ship's propulsion system provided a top speed of from , and a range of approximately at . As built, the ship was armed with a main battery of four