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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.
Littorio was the lead ship of her class of battleship; she served in the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) during World War II. She was named after the Lictor (" Littorio " in Italian), in ancient times the bearer of the Roman fasces , which was adopted as the symbol of Italian Fascism .
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 ...
Littorio-class battleship, class of battleship of the Regia Marina, the Italian navy, also known as the Vittorio Veneto class Italian battleship Littorio , ship of this class which served during World War II
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 152 mm /55 Model 1934–1936 were built for the Italian Navy in the years before World War II.These guns were used on the Duca degli Abruzzi-class Light cruisers, which were the final series of the Condottieri-class cruisers as their primary armament and as secondary armament on the Littorio-class battleships.
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.