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Naval ships of Italy captured by the United Kingdom during World War II (1 P) Pages in category "World War II naval ships of Italy" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
Regia Marina naval jack until 1900. The Regia Marina was established on 17 March 1861 following the proclamation of the formation of the Kingdom of Italy.Just as the Kingdom was a unification of various states in the Italian peninsula, so the Regia Marina was formed from the navies of those states, though the main constituents were the navies of the former kingdoms of Sardinia and Naples.
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]
At the end of its five years involvement in World War II, Italy was a devastated nation.After the end of hostilities, the Regia Marina – which at the beginning of the war was the fourth largest navy in the world, with a mix of modernised and new battleships – started a long and complex rebuilding process.
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.
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 ...
World War II naval ships of Italy (10 C, 16 P) Cold War naval ships of Italy (1 C, 22 P) ... Ships of the Italian Navy (13 C) A. Aircraft carriers of Italy (3 C, 2 P)
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.