Italian corvette Principessa Clotilde

Class overview
Name	Principessa Clotilde
Operators	Royal Sardinian Navy; Regia Marina;
Preceded by	Etna
Succeeded by	Caracciolo
Completed	1
History
Laid down	1861
Launched	1864
Completed	1866
General characteristics
Type	Screw corvette
Displacement	2,148 long tons (2,182 t)
Length	66.2 m (217 ft 2 in)
Beam	12.5 m (41 ft)
Draft	5.1 m (16 ft 9 in)
Installed power	1 × fire-tube boiler; 400 hp (300 kW);
Propulsion	1 × marine steam engine; 1 × screw propeller;
Speed	9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph)
Range	800 nmi (1,500 km; 920 mi) at 9 knots
Complement	345
Armament	14 × smoothbore 160 mm (6.3 in) guns; 10 × rifled 160 mm guns;

Principessa Clotilde was a screw corvette of the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) built in the 1860s. The ship was originally laid down for the Royal Sardinian Navy, but by the time the ship was completed, Italy had unified, and so she entered service with the Regia Marina.

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