Launched on 20 August 1910, Dante Alighieri was the first Italian dreadnought battleship. Commissioned into the Regia Marina on 15 January 1913, she served as the flagship during World War One. Apart from Second Battle of Durazzo in 1918 Dante Alighieri saw no action during the war.
Although refitted in 1923, she was stricken from the navy list in 1928 and sold for scrap the following year.
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