Lewin of Greenwich Naval History & Forum

The old monitor FAA DI BRUNO surely rates as one of the most ungainly and UGHLY warships of all time! It carried 2-15" originally meant for CARRACCOLI (sp?) super dreadnought of WW1. DFO

The converted floating crane, Italian Monitor RM Alfredo Cappellini pictured in April 1917...Her 2 x 15 inch/40 calibre guns could elevate to 20° and her turret could traverse 30° to either side of her centreline..They fired an 1,949 lb armour piercing shell at a muzzle velocity of 700 m/s (2,297 ft/s) to a range of 27,300 m (89,567 ft) at maximum elevation. She bombarded Austro-Hungarian positions during the Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo in 1917 before she was wrecked off Ancona on November 16th 1917.