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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.
Line-drawing of the Littorio class. Littorio and her sister Vittorio Veneto were designed in response to the French Dunkerque-class battleships. [2] Littorio was 237.76 meters (780 ft 1 in) long overall, had a beam of 32.82 m (107 ft 8 in) and a draft of 9.6 m (31 ft 6 in).
The negative experience with the Ammiraglio di Saint Bon class convinced the constructors, led by Benedetto Brin, to design a larger battleship that could engage its foreign counterparts. The new class was designed specifically to counter the new Habsburg-class battleships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy. For this purpose, the ships were armed ...
Line-drawing of the Littorio class Vittorio Veneto was 237.76 meters (780 ft 1 in) long overall and had a beam of 32.82 m (107 ft 8 in) and a draft of 9.6 m (31 ft 6 in). She was designed with a standard displacement of 40,724 long tons (41,377 t ), a violation of the 35,000-long-ton (36,000 t) restriction of the Washington Naval Treaty ; at ...
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 ...
This meant that plunging fire became a serious concern, and lead to the strengthening of deck armor. Belt armor also became much thicker, surpassing 300 mm (12 in) on the largest battleships. [9] [10] One of the most heavily armored ships of all time, the Yamato-class battleship, had main belt of armour up to 410 millimetres (16.1 in) thick. [11]
The Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy)—France's other major naval rival—announced on 11 June 1935 that it would begin building two 35,000-long-ton (36,000 t) battleships of the Littorio class in response to the Dunkerques. The Italian ships were to be armed with nine 381 mm (15 in) guns, significantly more powerful than the eight 330 mm (13 ...
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.