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Naval ensign of Italy. This is a list of active Italian Navy ships.The navy maintains approximately 181 ships in service, [1] including minor auxiliary vessels. The fleet has started a process of renewal that will see 50 ships retired by 2025 and replaced by 30 multi-mission ships. [2]
Today's Italian Navy is a modern navy with ships of every type. The fleet is in continuous evolution, and as of today oceangoing fleet units include: 2 light aircraft carriers, 3 amphibious assault ships, 4 destroyers, 11 frigates and 8 attack submarines.
In the aftermath of the Italian fleet's defeat at the Battle of Lissa in 1866, the Italian parliament drastically reduced naval budgets. [1] By the 1870s, the small budgets precluded the acquisition of a large battle fleet centered on new ironclads like the Duilio class then under construction, and so Admiral Simone Antonio Saint-Bon, then the Italian Minister of the Navy, ordered a small ...
But due to the policy of restraint adopted by the Italian Navy, Dante Alighieri and the other battleships of the Italian fleet saw no action. [4] Financial limitations in the post-war period forced the navy to scrap the ship to reduce the naval budget. [13] The ship was accordingly stricken on 1 July 1928 and sold for scrap. [12]
The ships to be sold would be among those that already being built for the Italian navy in order to accelerate delivery. Transfer of technology and know-how would also included in the deal. [ 40 ] In March 2024, Fincantieri and the Indonesian Ministry of Defence have signed a 1.18 billion euro contract for the supply of two PPA Units. [ 41 ]
Venetian "Madonna della Vigna" (first on the left) in battle against Ottoman ships in 1649. This is a list of Italian carracks, galleons and ships of the line of the period 1400-1858: Italy was formed in 1861 with the union of several states, including the Two Sicilies (with Naples), and Piedmont-Sardinia, including Genoa, some Papal states and ...
Tirrenia Società Anonima di Navigazione was founded in 1936, resulting from the nationalization of many privately-owned Italian lines. The company gathered a fleet of 55 ships. When World War II broke out, the number of lines were reduced. By 1942, 50 ships were sunk during the armed conflicts in the Mediterranean sea. [2]
Merchant ships of Italy include all merchant ships designed, built, or operated by Italy. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.