The turret faces have 250mm, the turret sides and rears have 220mm, the gunshields are 203mm and the main barbettes are 240mm, with the lower barbettes thinning to 120mm. The turrets of the ship have similar levels of protection. The lower armoured deck is placed under the 100mm belt, though the 32mm of protection isn't of much use against an opponent that isn't at extremely close range, and even then you could have some of the more powerful AP shells going through anyway. This does not give much protection against shells that hit above the main armour belt. The upper belt is 203mm with the casemate guns above having a 100mm layer of armour. Not great, but is to be expected from an early dreadnought. The entire main deck is covered in a uniform 28mm of armour which, combined with the 32mm lower deck, give a grand total of 60mm of protection against plunging fire. The Dante has a main belt of 250mm, which is below average for a dreadnought and is approaching battlecruiser levels of thickness, however it is backed up by a 50mm turtleback layer and an array of coal bunkers which help halt penetrating shells and limit fragmentation. This simply means that the armour of the vessel is spread across almost the entire hull rather than being concentrated on key compartments. As is typical for dreadnoughts, the Dante uses a distributed armour scheme. The RN Dante Alighieri has a crew of 970 sailors, which is about average for a dreadnought.
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