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  Battle of Taranto - Iridis Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
At the time this "fleet-in-being" was fairly powerful, the harbor at Taranto contained six battleships (although one was not battle-worthy), seven heavy cruisers and two light cruisers, and eight destroyers.
During the attacks the battleship Littorio was hit by three torpedoes, while the battleships Conte di Cavour and Caio Duilio were both hit by one each, while a cruiser in the inner harbor had been damaged by bombs.
The Italian fleet was mortally wounded, and the next day their undamaged ships were transferred to naval bases farther north to protect them from similar attacks in the future.
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 Italian Navy
Italians lacked totally from this point of view, all their airplanes were controlled by th Air Force which imposed to not build any carrier.
Mussolini thought that all Italian peninsula was a huge aircraft carrier: this though will be tragically wrong.During the tragedy of Second World War 33.000 Italian Seamen lost their lives and were lost 270.000 tons of warships.
Caio Duilio and Andrea Doria were built as 21 knot dreadnoughts, with powerful armament but very little protection.
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 Attack on Taranto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
All six of the Italian battleships of the 5th and 9th Divisions were in port on the night of the attack.
At 11:14 PM, the 12.6-inch gun battleship, "Conte di Cavour" was hit by one torpedo in her port bow between her number 1 and 2 turrets.
A minute later, the battleship, "Caio Duilio" was hit by a torpedo in her starboard bow just behind her number 1 turret.
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 Cape Matapan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The primary Italian concern now is another enemy torpedo-plane raid and Iachino is understandably furious at the lack of support from both the Luftwaffe and Regia Aeronautica stating “I felt pretty well deceived by the lack of co-operation.
Deciding that the unknown contact is a stopped battleship, Pridham-Whippell opts to pass his force around the mysterious vessel’s north side and continue the primary pursuit.
The general superiority of Italian ships and the extraordinary skill and determination shown by their officers and crew are simply too handicapped by internal issues.
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 Crete and Egypt: AWM/IWM Study Tour 2002
Cunningham's fleet, consisting of four old battleships, one obsolete aircraft carrier, nine cruisers, twenty five destroyers and twelve submarines, was now outnumbered by the Italians alone, whose fleet numbered six battleships (two brand new), nineteen cruisers, around seventy-five destroyers and smaller escorts, and one hundred and thirteen submarines.
The Italians moved their remaining battleships north to Naples, and the British were able to move about the Mediterranean almost unmolested.
The lull led to a resurgence of Italian confidence, On 25th March, ULTRA intercepts revealed that the Italians were planning a strike on British convoys transporting troops to Greece.
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 ww2
That night all of the six Italian battleships were in the Taranto harbour; the Royal Navy planned a daring action: two strikes of torpedo-carrying Swordfish aircraft took off from carrier Illustrious, that approached undetected to within 170 miles of Taranto.
Italians countered the convoy with light units from Sicily, supported by air attacks and a cruiser division, near the island of Pantelleria with success this time: just 2 freighters survived of attacks and delivered their supplies to Malta.
Italians decided to preserve the remaining fleet, because of the total lack of fuel, for a final, huge and hopeless battle against the coming Allied forces in order to save at least the honour before being defeated.
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 A Survey of the American Standard Type Battleship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Battleship 1917.” The Colorado was a duplicate of the previous design in every respect except for the adoption of twin 16”/45 caliber individual sleeve turrets in place of the triple 14”/50 caliber units.
While only two ships were authorized for “Battleship 1915,” three were in fact built, with the last a result of a monetary windfall for the USN in the sale of two predreadnoughts to Greece.
The last five battleships were placed into reserve where they remained until disposed of in 1959, thus outlasting their every rival, including Nelson and Rodney as well as newer ships such as the Vittorio Veneto's and the King George V’s.
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 Probert Encyclopaedia: Ships (C-Car)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
She was armed with two pairs of 4.5 inch dual-purpose guns mounted forward; twelve 40 mm anti-aircraft guns; two depth charge howitzers; ten 21-inch torpedo tubes.
The Caio Duilio is an Italian Andrea Doria Class cruiser of 5000 tons standard displacement launched in 1962.
She carries a crew of 470 including 45 officers and is powered by two double reduction geared turbines rated at 60000 shp and four Foster-Wheeler boilers providing a top speed of 31 knots and a range of 8000 km at 17 knots.
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 Taranto: Damages and Casualties
The day following the attack the remaining battleships, Giulio Cesare, Vittorio Veneto and Andrea Doria were immediately transferred to Naples, while the salvage operations began on the damaged ones.
The Littorio and the Caio Duilio were relatively easy to recover and within a month these ships were already afloat.
Duilio was hit at around midnight by a torpedo launched from about 400 meters.
www.regiamarina.net /engagements/taranto/taranto_damages_us.htm   (603 words)

  
 THE BISMARCK CLASS
The Dante Alighieri class of battleships were the first battleships in the world to have the triple turrets down the centerline.  They were also Italy ’s first dreadnoughts.  Although she was faster than most of her contemporaries, she had relatively weak armor, which would later become typical of all Italian ships
The Caio Duilio class of battleships were powerful and fast battleships.  They sacrificed armor for speed and powerful weapons.  These ships were comparable in power to the Arkansas class of ships, but were much faster than they were.
The Caracciolo class of battleships were neverbuilt.  Work on them were suspended in 1916, in order to concentrate on building destroyers, submarines, and other light craft.  Work on them resumed in 1919, but was stopped once again in 1920.  They were all scrapped by 1922.
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 THE CONCEPT AND RAMIFICATIONS OF THE AMERICAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The second “Standard Type” battleship design was the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38)--a.k.a “ Battleship 1913 and Battleship 1914 ”--which actually represented a development of a scheme considered for “ Battleship 1912.” The Pennsylvania sported four triple, single sleeve turrets, vice Nevada’s two triples and two twins.
The fifth and last “Standard Type” design was the USS Colorado (BB-45)--a.k.a “ Battleship 1917.” The Colorado was a duplicate of the previous design in every respect except for the adoption of twin 16”/45 calibre individual sleeve turrets in place of the triple 14”/50 calibre units.
The Caio Duilio suffered an almost identical hit at Taranto with almost identical results, being returned to service only by virtue of sinking in shallower water than Conte di Cavour.
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 Articles - Battle of Taranto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 1939 Italian operations in North Africa, centered on Libya, required resupply from the Italian mainland.
This put the Italian fleet was in an excellent position to cut off supplies to the British forces.
So instead of direct action, the Italians left their ships safely in harbor, leaving the mere threat of a sortie to cause the British serious problems.
www.greensky.biz /articles/Battle_of_Taranto   (782 words)

  
 Italian battleship Caio Duilio - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Caio Duilio was an Italian Caio Duilio class battleship that served Regia Marina during World War I and World War II.
Caio Duilio was damaged by a torpedo during the Battle of Taranto.
She was towed to Genoa for repairs in 6 months, and narrowly escaped further damage when the port was bombarded by British warship in February 1941.
psychcentral.com /wiki/Italian_battleship_Caio_Duilio   (254 words)

  
 Regia Marina - Result for Regia Marina - Meaning of Regia Marina - Definition of Regia Marina - Dictionary of Meaning - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
About 4 Dreadnought battleships were built, but were not involved in major naval actions.
The Austrian successfully sabotaged and sank battleships ''Benedetto Brin'' ( Brindisi, 27 September 1915) and Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci ''Leonardo da Vinci'' ( Taranto, 2 August 1916).
Italian ships were generally regarded as well-designed and good-looking, but proved to be rather deficient in anti-aircraft armament and radar.
www.mauspfeil.net /Regia_Marina.html   (707 words)

  
 ARMYBOOK.COM - The books, magazines and models from Russia and Eastern Europe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The British battleship Queen Elizabeth class, 56 pages, (Polish), 2 pages of colour projections, 21 Is fl of white photos, 48 pages projections and drawings (1/200, 1/400, 1/700).
The Italian battleship Caio Duilio class, 56 pages, (Polish), 4 pages of colour projections, 35 Is fl of white photos, 31 pages projections and drawings (1/200, 1/400, 1/700).
Battleship Hiei, 32 pages, (Two languages: Polish and English), 8 Is b/w photos, 35 pages projections and drawings (1/100, 1/200, 1/400).
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 Italy Battleship Andrea Doria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Andrea Doria was half of the two-ship Caio Duilio battleship class, which was very similar to the previous Conte di Cavour class.
Compared to contemporary foreign battleships, the Caio Duilios were slightly faster, slightly under armed (the 12 inch gun was rapidly being replaced by something larger in most navies) and not as well protected.
The Italian Navy was dependent on their German allies for fuel oil and could only sortie when the Germans gave them enough oil to do so.
www.lostbattalion.com /BB/Andrea%20Doria.html   (411 words)

  
 The Pearl Harbor Strike Force
Two of those were on the newest Russian battleships, the Tsessarevitch and the Retvisan, which were run aground near the harbor entrance.
The Littorio and the Caio Duilio were raised and returned to service in 1941, but the Conte di Cavour, although raised, was never completely repaired.
The battleships California, Nevada, and West Virginia all sank much like the Italian battleships at Taranto, and all were raised and returned to service by 1943.
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Disposition of the Italian Warships that Survived WWII
The Italians hoped to have this order reversed, so that they might negotiate the return of these two vessels when the peace treaty expired in 1952, so they found a variety of excuses to not get started.
The Italians gave up on saving them, and the two ships were cut up by 1955.
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 Slashdot | RC Battleship Combat
Take the battleship Yamato, the pride of WWII japanese Fleet, when it went on its suicide mission against the US fleet at Okinawa it took, IIRC, somewhere around 12 torpedo hit plus a large number of bombs before she finally went down.
I hate replying to my own comment but I also thought of a british battleship, I believe she was the Prince of Whales, that was constructed during the late 1920's-early 30's.
Basically a double hull was constructed and the outer hull could be flooded with water in effect adding alot of armor as water can quite easily absorb the blast impacts while staying under the tonnage restrictions (as long as her outer hull wasn't flooded).
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 Battleship Art Prints
Battleships of the Royal Navy and US Navy and battleships of the Italian Navy by naval artist Anthony Saunders available as signed limited edition art prints.
The major battleships of the Home Fleet, with their massive guns which could deliver gunfire with pinpoint accuracy to 17 miles.
In the Spring of 1942, USS Washington was the first of America's fast battleship fleet to participate in combat operations when she was briefly assigned to the Royal Navy.
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 ARMYBOOK.COM - The books, magazines and models from Russia and Eastern Europe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Italian and Austro-Hungarian Navies of 1914-1918 (Morskaya Collekchiy 4/97)
Battleship's Italian fleet (1908-1956), Reference complete book., 100 pages.
The battleship of a coastal defense "General-admiral Apraksin".
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 Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - Vittorio Veneto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
One of a four-ship class, Vittorio Veneto was the first battleship commissioned by the Italian Navy since Caio Duilio and Andrea Doria in 1915 and 1916.
On June 5, 1943, she was hit during an air raid on La Spezia, but after the Italian armistice in September, she steamed under her own power to Malta.
Interned in Egypt until war's end, she was stricken from the Italian Navy in 1948 and broken up at La Spezia.
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 World Battleships List: Italian Dreadnoughts
Ships that could not sail were scuttled and fell into German hands; the rest put to sea on the evening of the 8th, one being sunk en route to Malta.
The fleet was returned to the new Italian government, although 3 ships were assigned to the Allies as reparations postwar.
The last Italian battleships were stuck in 1956.
www.hazegray.org /navhist/battleships/ital_dr.htm   (662 words)

  
 WW II: The World at War 1943
The Italian heavy cruiser Trieste is sunk at La Maddalena, Sardinia, by attacks from 84 B-24 Liberators bombers.
Battleships Andrea Doria and Caio Duilio sail from Taranto.
Fight between German and Italian troops at Korpoe, the whole Italian Army 7.000 men killed by the Germans.
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 Axis Ships sunk - Fleet Air Arm Fighting the Axis ships and U-boats
Aircrew involved in the strike on the Italian Battle Fleeet at Taranto
Aircrew involved in the strike on the German Battleship Bismarck
Barracuda aircrew involved in the strike on the German Battleship Tirpitz
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 CG Replays
Italy uses an offensive in the east activating both Italians and Germans in an attempt to re-anchor the flanks of Army Kharkov, but the attack is a disaster (3-1 –1) xx and the Axis suffers heavy casualties.
The Italians try their hand at winter combat and are successful attacking the flanks of Voronezh (4-1 even DE).
Italian bombers are alerted to the UK ships movement and launch sorties in an attempt to sink this BB.
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Caio Duilio, Italian Battleship - Laid down in 1912 the two battleships of the
The end result was a striking beautiful warship that served the Italian Navy until 1956.
of Russian predreadnought battleships had a poor reputation after the Battle of Tsushima, where three of the class capsized and sank and one was captured.
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 taranto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In fact, "Cavour" would never see action again and was still undergoing repairs in Trieste at the time of the armistice.
Despite the losses at Taranto, the Italian Navy still had the material wherewithal and desire to bring the British forces to combat.
This was demonstrated on November 27, 1940, when the Italians encountered the British off Cape Teulada (known by the British as the Battle of Spartivento).
history.acusd.edu /gen/WW2Timeline/taranto.html   (417 words)

  
 Italian Dreadnoughts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Alighieri was the first battleship to be built with triple turrets, although the long building times led to the Austro-Hungarians to be the first to commission one.
Overcoming their doubts about superfiring turrets, the Italians mounted them on the Cavours.
They would be the first Italian battleships to mount 15" guns.
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The same class was used by the Italians in WWII as...
The picture represents the WWII Italian battleship Andrea Doria (1944), "Caio Duilio" class.
The lead ship of the Italian Littorio class 'treaty' battleships, RMS Littorio commissioned in May 1940.
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