Battleships: Conte di Cavour Class

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Lead Ship,Dreadnought Battleship RM Conte di Cavour pictured c1939.
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Battleship RM Roma pictured fitting out alongside Battleship RM Conte di Cavour undergoing repairs post the raid on Taranto.....Trieste,1942.
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BTW, the photo of ROMA and CAVOUR refitting was put up back in 2019, too.... :) Here is another view of CAVOUR being refitted after salvage........ ;)

It looks like her 12.6s and 4.7" gun tubes were still not mounted. DFO
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Numerous BIG GUNS being fired from ANDREA DORIA! :) A interesting over head view in her original configuration. DFO
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Lead Ship,Dreadnought Battleship RM Conte di Cavour pictured on launching at Arsenale di La Spezia at La Spezia on August 10th 1911 and fitting out.
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Here are the first pair after their very extensive rebuild, moored among destroyers......... ;) The twin, single sleeve 4.7" turrets are very visible in this picture. DFO
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Lead Ship,Dreadnought Battleship Conte di Cavour pictured with King Victor Emmanuel III, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler aboard, during a naval review in the Gulf of Naples on May 5th 1938.
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CAVOUR after being raised at Taranto in 1941. ;) DFO
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Conte di Cavour Class Dreadnought Battleship RM Guilio Cesare pictured post refit off Taranto in 1938..Completed at Ansaldo Shipyards, Genoa in 1914, she was little used and saw no combat during the First World War. She supported operations during the Corfu Incident in 1923 and spent much of the rest of the decade in reserve. She was rebuilt between 1933 and 1937 with more powerful guns, additional armour and considerably more speed than before.
During World War II, both Giulio Cesare and her sister ship, Conte di Cavour, participated in the Battle of Calabria in July 1940, when the former was lightly damaged. They were both present when British torpedo bombers attacked the fleet at Taranto in November 1940, but Giulio Cesare was not damaged. She escorted several convoys to North Africa and participated in the Battle of Cape Spartivento in late 1940 and the First Battle of Sirte in late 1941. She was designated as a Training Ship in early 1942, and escaped to Malta after the Italian armistice the following year. she was transferred to the Soviet Union as war reparations in 1949 and renamed Novorossiysk (Новороссийск). The Soviets also used her for training until she was sunk in 1955, with the loss of 608 men, by an explosion most likely caused by an old German mine. She was salvaged the following year and later scrapped.
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The incomplete (salvage/rebuild) CONTE DI CAVOUR in 1942. ;) DFO
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