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Aquila (Italian for "Eagle") was an Italian aircraft carrier converted from the transatlantic passenger liner SS Roma. During World War II , Work on Aquila began in late 1941 at the Ansaldo shipyard in Genoa and continued for the next two years.
Italian aircraft carrier Aquila, previously the passenger liner SS Roma. Conversion started in 1941 but was never finished. She was broken up in 1951. Italian corvette Aquila (F 542), an Albatros-class corvette launched in 1954 as the Dutch HNLMS Lynx. Transferred to Italy and renamed in 1961. She was stricken in 1991.
Italian aircraft carrier Aquila; S. Italian aircraft carrier Sparviero This page was last edited on 15 February 2024, at 15:56 (UTC). ...
SS Roma was an ocean liner built for the Italian shipping company Navigazione Generale Italiana of Genoa by Ansaldo shipyard in Sestri Ponente. She was the sister ship to MS Augustus . The ship was later transferred to the new Italian Line after the merger of Navigazione Generale Italiana.
Like Sparviero, the Italian aircraft carrier Aquila, a modification of the sister ship of Augustus, SS Roma, was scuttled and scrapped before the conversion into the aircraft carrier was finished. These two ships were the last attempts to build aircraft carriers for the Italian Navy until 1981, when work began on Giuseppe Garibaldi.
At the start of World War II, many navies envisioned flattops in a supporting role for battleships. By 1945, those roles had reversed.
A list of aircraft used by Italy during World War II until its capitulation to the Allies in September 1943. After that Italy was divided in two states, the Axis Italian Social Republic in the north and the Allied Kingdom of Italy in the south. Both countries had their own Air Force fitted with formerly used Italian aircraft and other nations ...
An aircraft carrier is a warship with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft, that serves as a seagoing airbase. Included in this list are ships which meet the above definition and had an official name ( italicized ) or designation (non-italicized), regardless of whether they were or ...