Victory at Sea: Vittorio Veneto

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Victory at Sea: Vittorio Veneto

The Littorio class was the first new Italian battleship class for nearly adecade when design work began in 1930. Initially designed to remain within the35,000-ton Washington Treaty limit, the final displacement was just over40,000 tons. As well as being good-looking ships, the Littorio-class included anumber of new features including high-velocity guns. They were probably thefirst of the ‘fast battleships’ that would come to dominate capital shipdesign in the late 1930s and onward.

Vittorio Veneto saw extensive service in World War Two, participating in theBattles of Cape Spartivento in November 1940 and Cape Matapan in March1941. Though struck by a torpedo at this latter engagement and again latercourtesy of a British submarine, she would escape unscathed from the Britishraid on Taranto of November 1940. 1941 and early 1942 was spent attempting toattack British convoys en route to Malta, until fuel shortages forced the end ofsuch activity. In the armistice of 1943, she was surrendered to the Allies afterItaly withdrew from the war, spending the next three years under British controlin Egypt. Thereafter she was allocated to Britain as a war prize and wasscrapped.

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