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The Littorio class, also known as the Vittorio Veneto class, [Note 1] was a class of battleship of the Regia Marina, the Italian navy.The class was composed of four ships—Littorio, Vittorio Veneto, Roma, and Impero—but only the first three ships of the class were completed.
The threat from Littorio and Vittorio Veneto forced the British convoy to abort the mission. [24] [26] At 14:00, the Italians broke off the chase and returned to port; shortly before midnight that evening, Littorio was struck by a torpedo dropped by a British Wellington bomber, causing some 1,500 long tons (1,500 t) of water to flood the ship's ...
Vittorio Veneto was the second member of the Littorio-class battleship that served in the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) during World War II.The ship's keel was laid down in October 1934, launched in July 1937, and readied for service with the Italian fleet by August 1940.
The engagement, the last major battle in the war (1915–1918) between Italy and Austria-Hungary, was generally referred to as the Battle of Vittorio Veneto, i.e. 'Vittorio in the Veneto region'. The city's name was officially changed to Vittorio Veneto in July 1923, [ 13 ] about nine months after Benito Mussolini and his National Fascist Party ...
Littorio and Vittorio Veneto were laid down in 1934 and completed in early 1940; a second pair, Roma and Impero, were laid down in 1938. Roma was finished in mid-1942, while Impero was not completed. [42] The first two ships entered service in August 1940, shortly after Italy joined World War II.
Roma, named after two previous ships and the city of Rome, [N 1] was the third Littorio-class battleship of Italy's Regia Marina (Royal Navy). The construction of both Roma and her sister ship Impero was due to rising tensions around the world and the navy's fear that only two Littorios, even in company with older pre-First World War battleships, would not be enough to counter the British and ...
Impero was the fourth Littorio-class battleship built for Italy's Regia Marina (Royal Navy) during the Second World War.She was named after the Italian word for "empire", in this case referring to the newly (1936) conquered Italian Empire in East Africa (Somaliland, Eritrea and Ethiopia territories) as a result of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
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