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The San Giorgio class consisted of two armored cruisers built for the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) in the first decade of the 20th century.The second ship, San Marco, was used to evaluate recently invented steam turbines in a large ship and incorporated a number of other technological advances.
The Italian cruiser San Giorgio was the name ship of her class of two armored cruisers built for the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) in the first decade of the 20th century. Commissioned in 1910, the ship was badly damaged when she ran aground before the start of the Italo-Turkish War in 1911, although she was repaired before its end.
The Italian cruiser San Marco was a San Giorgio-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) in the first decade of the 20th century.She was the first large Italian ship fitted with steam turbines and the first turbine-powered ship in any navy to have four propeller shafts. [1]
Pages in category "San Giorgio-class cruisers" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Duca degli Abruzzi class. Luigi di Savoia Duca degli Abruzzi (1936) - BU 1961 or later; Giuseppe Garibaldi (1936) - BU 1970s; San Giorgio (ex-Pompeo Magno) after her post-war conversion to a large destroyer. Capitani Romani class (Only those units marked * were completed) Attilio Regolo* (1940) - Sold to France 1948 and renamed Chateaurenault
San Giorgio this name has been borne by at least three ships of the Italian Navy and may refer to: Italian cruiser San Giorgio, a San Giorgio-class cruiser launched in 1908 and scuttled in 1941. Italian destroyer San Giorgio, launched in 1941 as the Capitani Romani-class cruiser Pompeo Magno she was rebuilt as a destroyer and renamed in 1955 ...
Raised and completed for the Italian Navy after the war. Renamed San Marco, she served as a destroyer leader until her decommission in 1971. Pompeo Magno: Pompey the Great: CNR, Ancona: 23 September 1939 24 August 1941 4 June 1943 Renamed San Giorgio, served as a destroyer leader until 1963; decommissioned and scrapped in 1980 Scipione Africano
The San Giorgio class of the Italian Navy, also known as the Santi class (since the three units that compose it have the names of three saints), consists of three amphibious warships of the amphibious transport dock type: the San Giorgio, the San Marco and lastly, with a slightly different design, the San Giusto, specialized in landing operations that replaced the Grado and Caorle which were ...