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		Cruiser Division was steaming south of the main force and at 1215 sighted a British cruiser force.
		Vittorio Veneto was struck by a torpedo from the British submarine
		Vittorio Veneto is the tall barbette for the solitary aft Y barbette.
	www.steelnavy.com /DelphisVVeneto.htm (6190 words)

	Marina Militare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		7 Destroyers, 5 of the "Soldati" class and Augusto Riboty and Alfredo Oriani;
		The cruisers "Attilio Regolo" and "Scipione Africano" became the French "Chateaurenault" and "Guichen", while the "Eugenio di Savoia" became the Greek "Helli".
		Vittorio Veneto class cruisers (1969 - 2003): 1 vessel
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marina_Militare (1182 words)

	Lost Battalion Games : Features : Old Salt's Journal : The Ships of Battlegroup : Italy ...
		The 15 inch guns were substituted for the Treaty-allowed 16 inch guns in an attempt to stay near the Treaty limit of 35,000 tons though the guns were designed for the extraordinary range of 46,000 yards.
		Despite attempts to adhere to the treaty limits, the ships of this class were considerably overweight when completed, although the treaties had lapsed by then.
		Vittorio Veneto participated in most of the surface navy sorties by the Italian fleet during the war, when she wasn’t under repair.
	www.lostbattalion.com /t-bg_VittorioVeneto.aspx (524 words)

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		Brin's first pair of vessels, the Duilio Class pre-dreadnoughts of 1872, were the largest, fastest, and most heavily armed vessels in the world at the time of their launch.
		This design became the Vittorio Veneto Class battleships, but the decision to develop them instead of the 26,500-ton battlecruiser, rather than in parallel to it, was probably not the right one.
		While the Vittorio Veneto Class ships were quite good, their long building times meant that they were not available in the crucial, early days of the war in the Med.
	www.bobhenneman.info /ItalyHome.htm (1769 words)

	Aircraft carrier - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Some cruisers and capital ships of the inter-war years often carried a catapult launched seaplane for reconnaissance and spotting the fall of the guns.
		Starting late in the war with the Midway class, American carriers had grown so large that it was no longer practical to continue the concept of designing the hangar deck to be the strength deck, and all subsequent American carriers have the flight deck as the strength deck, leaving only the island as superstructure.
		To militate against the expensive connotations of the term "aircraft carrier", the new Invincible class carriers were originally designated "through deck cruisers" and were initially helicopter only craft to operate as escort carriers.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Aircraft_carrier (6953 words)

	Hauner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Class instincts, reflecting the recent revolution and breakdown of law and order, were at issue rather than concern for regaining great-power status.
		These cruisers, commissioned only after the end of the war, were the first and last cruisers built and finished here; surface ships built at Komsomolsk were mainly destroyers and frigates.
		The Baltiiskii yard launched two cruisers of the Kirov class (1935–39) and two of the Chapaev class (completed only after the war); in 1938 it saw the laying down of the first Soviet super-dreadnought, the Sovetskii Soyuz, meant to be the mainstay of Stalin’s big-fleet program.
	www.nwc.navy.mil /press/Review/2004/Spring/art4-sp04.htm (14457 words)

	C552 Conte di Cavour / New Major Unit / Nuova Unit?aggiore
		The official assignment of these ships is incrociatore portaeromobili (cruiser door-aircraft), and both are destined to operate it with aircraft STOVL (Short Takeoff/Vertical Landing), of short take-off (with the aid of a slope Ski Jump in the nose) and vertical landing.
		Destined to substitute the cruiser missile launcher Vittorio Veneto (C550), the Andrea Doria originally was assigned as Nuova Unitá Maggiore (In one) and inherited the name of a cruiser missile launcher incorporated in 1965.
		Those two ships, as well as the Vittorio Veneto, that entered in service in 1969, were endowed with throwers of surface-to-air missiles the vante, for missiles of average Terrier/Standard reach, and hangars and conveses of flight the reverse speed, for organic helicopters anti-submarine.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/europe/num.htm (1897 words)

	Operation Hats
		Furthermore, the Regia Marina was superior in terms of number of cruisers, and in some cases also in terms of quality; in particular, the Royal Navy did not have any 203mm-equipped vessel in the Mediterranean.
		Therefore, Admiral Cunningham requested from the Admiralty that the heavy cruiser Kent be transferred from the Indian Ocean to Alexandria.
		Littorio, Vittorio Veneto), the 5th Division (battleships Cavour, Cesare, Duilio), the 1st Division (Heavy Cruisers Pola, Zara, Fiume, Gorizia), the 8th Division (Light cruisers Duca degli Abruzzi.
	www.regiamarina.net /operations/hats/hats_us.htm (910 words)

	Spanish Battlecruiser Projects
		A Super-Heavy Cruiser was designed also, being of 17,500 tons with 36 knot speed and 12 x 8" guns.
		An "armored cruiser" design was also included, which resembled a very fast version of the German Deutschland Class.
		They were removed from the vessel in anticipation of fitting twin 15" mounts in their place, and were eventually installed as shore defense batteries.
	www.bobhenneman.info /Spain.htm (516 words)

	Caravaggio, Summer 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sadkovich disagrees with this standard view, pointing out that despite the loss of four battleships, by 28 November the battleships Vittorio Veneto and Giulio Cesare and their escorts were again at sea attempting to intercept Force H and the Malta-bound convoy it was covering.
		Vittorio Veneto, as one of the two most powerful battleships in the Italian navy, should have received a greater relative weight of effort.
		Damage to both Vittorio Veneto and Littorio would have created severe problems for the Italians, since there was only a single dry dock in the entire country (in Genoa) capable of taking those new ships, and then only one at a time.
	www.nwc.navy.mil /press/Review/2006/summer/art5-su06.htm (9981 words)

	Torpedo Defense Systems of World War II
		Vittorio Veneto twice, and Littorio once, suffered severe flooding in dangerous situations at sea when struck by torpedoes, more than such modern ships should have.
		The US also employed this variety of TDS in fast battleships of the South Dakota and Iowa classes and came to the conclusion that the heavy bulkhead was too rigid, resulting in a modest down-grading of the system’s explosive resistance rating.
		Even in the Richelieu Class, the depth of the system was not constant from bow to stern, tending to taper and thin out toward the ends.
	www.navweaps.com /index_tech/tech-047.htm (2868 words)

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		Operations were really not anticipated outside the Mediterranean and therefore the class was never expected to wander too far from an Italian port.
		Four weeks later as part of a force of five battleships, eleven cruisers and 23 destroyers they sortied on September 29 to intercept the British Mediterranean Fleet which was supporting two cruisers taking troops to Malta.
		She was joined by eight cruisers and thirteen destroyers as she proceed around the Italian boot.
	www.steelnavy.com /RMVeneto.htm (5429 words)

	Naval Institute Proceedings Magazine: World Navies in Review, by A. D. Baker III
		Both classes would be capable of carrying two helicopters and up to seven weapon or sensor modules, and all six would be rapidly adaptable as minelayers.
		Rumor has it that his downfall came as much for his failure to keep at least two of the remaining 26 strategic missile submarines at sea on patrol at all times as it did over continued scandals concerning corruption among high-ranking naval officers, even though he was not one of those publicly accused.
		The other new class, whose design was derived from lessons in signature reduction learned in the construction and operation of the trials craft Smyge (now employed as a public relations and recruiting platform), has been a quartet of 200-ton inshore mine countermeasures craft.
	www.usni.org /Proceedings/Articles98/PRObakereurope98.htm (4303 words)

	War in the Mediterranean - The Taranto Raid
		The two cruisers were scheduled to reinforce Operation Judgement (attack on Taranto) fleet.
		In addition, the 6 battleships, 7 cruisers and 28 destroyers in the inner and outer harbors of Taranto could potentially add a tremendous punch to the Italian AA, lending their 600+ batteries.
		In the inner harbor, heavy cruiser Trento had been damaged by an unexploded bomb which had open a hole in one of her fuel tank.
	www.geocities.com /ed_morris_inc/grandfather/Taranto.htm (2307 words)

	Dreadnought
		Later, the Vittorio Veneto was somewhat damaged by British torpedoes at the Battle of Cape Matapan in 1941.
		When, after a fashion, it was revived, as the "heavy cruiser" under the regime of the Treaty Cruisers, with CA hull numbers, these were considered cruisers proper and were given city names like other cruisers.
		The Virginia class of cruisers are now coming to be decommissioned, and their names are already assigned to new submarines, the Virginia, SSN-774, class of attack submarines.
	www.friesian.com /dreadnot.htm (8819 words)

	FREE MARKET FAIRY TALES: On This Day ... in 1860 & Others
		The cruiser HMS Orion spotted Iachino's flagship Vittorio Veneto in the early morning, and HMS Formidable launched a series of air strikes.
		Only one Fleet Air Arm bomber was shot down, and the battleship Vittorio Veneto and the cruiser Pola were both damaged by torpedoes.
		Campbeltown's superstructure had also been modified, to give her the approximate appearance of a German Mowe class escort vessel, in the hope that uncertainty as to her identity would help her get past the formidable shore batteries guarding the Loire estuary.
	www.fmft.net /archives/000847.html (810 words)

	The Scharnhorst Mystery
		Apart from the German ships, the Vittorio Venetos were the only ones to make extensive use of anything that could be mistaken for an incremental system; and in their case, the Italians still made sure to get a 162mm deck into the scheme.
		She had emerged from the idea of a Battlecruiser as a successor of the Deutschland class, she carried on the charactheristic of a German style BC of being fast, heavily armored but lightly gunned compared to BBs.
		Her alleged BC qualities are tied to her small size rather than the skewing of design priorities, and keep in mind that small size is antithetical to the definition of a battlecruiser.
	p081.ezboard.com /fforumonwarfrm9.showMessage?topicID=17.topic (4904 words)

	Italian Navy
		The Vittorio Veneto is a purpose built helicopter cruiser that followed from the design of the Andrea Doria class of the 1950s.
		The Audace class was derived from the Impavido class but incorparated a number of modifications in weapons and detection systems.
		The Sauro class were delivered in 4 batches to the Italian navy with every batch small modifications and improvements.
	homepage.eircom.net /~steven/crustmov.htm (2546 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot Scrap Iron Flotilla Matapan
		Two more cruisers were sighted farther south and Stuart and Havoc raced away to meet them, while Griffin and Greyhound, to the north, more than held their own with a number of destroyers.
		Wars pite had crippled the 8-inch cruiser Zara with a single salvo and she burned slowly, her guns still firing at the tiny destroyers which raced round her, guns blazing and tubes trained.
		The cruiser, undamaged and ready to open fire, could have blasted Stuart out of the water with a single salvo from her 6-inch guns, but she passed without firing a shot.
	www.gunplot.net /matapan/scrapironflott7.html (4618 words)

	Status and Development Prospects of NATO Navies
		The destroyer type is represented by 8 Birmingham- Class ships of three modifications (D 86-92 and 108), transferred to the Navy during 1976-1983, and 4 Manchester- Class (D 95-98) built during 1983-1985.
		To replace them by 2005, three submarines of a new class, Le Triomphant (S 616-618), are being built and construction of another one equipped with M45 missiles is planned.
		It is planned to build a second carrier of this class in the future and to decommission the cruiser C 550 Vittorio Veneto after the second aircraft carrier is commissioned.
	www.fas.org /news/russia/1996/druma133_s96018.htm (3370 words)

	H.M.S. Hood Association-Battle Cruiser Hood: Crew Information - Biography of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Browne ...
		Having hoisted his flag in the light cruiser Coventry, Cunningham used his time to perfect the fleet handling for which he was to achieve fame in the Second World War.
		The battleship Vittorio Veneto was hit and, in a later attack, the cruiser Pola disabled.
		Pola and the two cruisers Zara and Fiume, detached from the main force to assist her, were traced by the British forces during the night and all were sunk.
	www.hmshood.com /crew/biography/abc_bio.htm (2364 words)

	European Helicopter Carriers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I decided to choose all ships designated as aircraft carriers plus the Russian "Kuznetsov" who is called a heavy aviation cruiser but regarded as an aircraft carrier by the western navies.
		As an significant number of helicopters I regard 6 helicopters as that is the number of helicopters operated by the Italian helicopter cruiser "Vittorio Veneto" as the smallest helicopter cruiser.
		The only exception from this ruling is the Italian San Giorgio class with its full flight deck although they operate 5 helicopters only.
	members.aol.com /mircogr/helos.html (257 words)

	CHAPTER VIII: The Soviets at Sea
		World War II Soviet cruisers were refitted tsarist-era vessels, including the Krasni Kavkaz (formerly the Admiral Lazarov, built in 1916 at Kinoleav), the Profintern (formerly the Svetlana, built in 1915 at Reval [now Tallinn] and refitted in 1937), and the Chevonagy Ukraina (formerly the Admiral Nakhimov, built in 1915).
		The Nazis sent the partly finished cruiser Lutzow, laid down at Bremen in 1937, and in May 1941 "construction of the cruiser 'L' in Leningrad was proceeding according to plan." In the Leningrad yards German technicians took over construction and repair of Soviet ships.
		The Poltava class of Soviet merchant vessels, equipped with special hatches, was used to carry missiles to Cuba in 1962, it was used to supply the Vietnamese War, it is used today to support "wars of liberation" in Africa and Central America.
	www.the-dominion.org /books/best_enemy/chapter_08.htm (4990 words)

	Avalanche Press
		Three cruisers remained the Dutch standard, but in the mid-1930s the navy’s leaders became convinced these needed to be the sort of “super cruisers” discussed in many naval journals of the time.
		The greater range of the Cruiser Killer’s guns would allow her to sink the Japanese ships from well outside a range at which the cruisers could hurt the bigger ship.
		The Dutch gave their Cruiser Killer a dozen very effective 120mm (4.7-inch) dual-purpose weapons in six dual mounts, plus 16 40mm automatic weapons, all tied together by a sophisticated fire-control system whose like would not be seen until after World War II.
	www.avalanchepress.com /DutchCruisers.php?mode=print (1282 words)

	Click on a picture and you will be taken to that part of the store
		The battle cruiser and her consort, the light cruiser Breslau, are loose in the Mediterranean Sea and its up to the British and French to hunt them down before they escape or destroy the vital French troop convoys heading from Algeria to France.
		Austria-Hungary receives the 1916 type battleship (armed with 16.1-inch guns), the ancient coast defense ship Erzherzog Rudolf, the remainder of the 1914 cruiser class, plus a counter for her projected aircraft carrier.
		Italy receives all her ships and aircraft of 1940 through 1942: from the mighty battleship Vittorio Veneto to the aircraft carrier Aquila on down to the destroyer Freccia.
	www.warchest.com.au /shopSea.htm (3943 words)

	Moskva Class - Project 1123
		The two Moskva class ships were introduced in 1967 and were homeported in the Black Sea.
		They were designated as "aviation cruisers" at least in part to avoid problems with the 1936 Montreaux Convention, which prohibited passage of "aircraft carriers" through the Dardanelles.
		Their design was heavily influenced by the French carrier Jeanne d’Arc and the Italian Vittorio Veneto.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/row/rus/1123.htm (257 words)

	Warship Pictures
		Note the eight (rather than ten in all other ships of the class) twin 5"/38 secondary mounts, due to the space required to fufill her roll as a fleet flagship (Official U.S. Navy photograph).
		Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto in Taranto, after being hit by a torpedo during Operation Guido.
		Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto on her way to Malta to surrender.
	www.chuckhawks.com /warship_pictures.htm (811 words)

	Queen Victoria Class Battleship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Soon after the first battleships of the Queen Elizabeth class were laid down, new rumors began to emerge about a new class of German battleship, one armed with 16" guns.
		Poor weather and mechanical failure sent several of the destroyers and cruisers back to their Norwegian ports, but the remainder of the German force continued with the attack.
		A few German destroyers and the cruiser Prinz Eugen were able to break through, but the Odin, Bismarck, Tirpitz, Moltke, Scharnhorst and the rest of the German force were doomed.
	home.sc.rr.com /dwspage/MISC/Queen_Victoria/queen.htm (2165 words)

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