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Conte di Cavour-class
Andrea Doria-class
An item referred to the Proceedings dated August 1938 reporting that the Italian battleships Caio Duilio (1) and Andrea Doria which were at moment being modernized were to be fitted out with another medium armament than the Conte di Cavour (3) and Giulio Cesare. Instead of 12-12cm/4.7” and 8-10cm/3.9” was planned 12-13,5cm/5.3” and 10-8,8cm/3.47“.
Notes
1. Of the Andrea Doria-class with as sister ship the Andrea Doria which class succeeded the Conti di Cavour-class and was succeeded by the Vittorio Veneto-class in stead of the planned Francesco Caracciolo-class. Laid down at the Castellammare di Stabia shipyard, Naples on 24 February 1912 and on 24 April a year later launched, commissioned on 13 June 1916, April 1937-October 1940 extensively modernized since 1942 out of service due to lacking fuel, since 1943 training ship and broken up in La Spezia in 1957.
2. Laid down at the La Spezia Navy Yard on 24 March 1912, launched on 30 March 1913, completed on 13 March 1916, modernized 1937-1940, gunnery training ship with intervals 13 December 1949-May 1953, decommissioned on 16 September 1956, stricken on 1 November 1956 and finally sold to be broken up which was executed at La Spezia. Of the Andrea Doria or Caio Duilio-class, preceded by the Conte di Cavour-class, to be succeeded by the planned but never completed Francesco Caracciolo-class but in reality by the Littorio-class was designed by vice admiral annex naval architect Giuseppe Valsecchi. The design was made as a response on the French Bretagne-class battleships.
3. Laid down at the la Spezia Arsenale, La Spezi, Italy on 10 August 1910, launched on 10 August 1911, completed 1 April 1915, modernized at the CRDA Trieste shipyard between October 1933-June 1937, grounded after an British aircraft attack on the harbour of Taranto, Italy with just superstructure and gun turrets above the water on 12 November 1940, refloated on 9 June 1941, brought towards Trieste, repairs stopped still unfinished in June 1943, captured by German forces on 8 September 1943, converted into a hulk, capsized on 23 February 1945 after being damaged by an Allied aircraft attack on the 17th and finally broken up in 1946.Part of the Conte di Cavour-dreadnought class consisting of the Conte di Cavour, Giulio Cesare and Leonardo da Vinci. General original technical specifications of this class designed by rear admiral Edoardo Masdea (1), at that moment the naval chief constructor. The new class was to be an improvement of the faults of the Dante Alighieri and an answer of the French Courbet-class battleships.
4. Part of the Italian Conte di Cavour dreadnought battleships class. Laid down at the shipyard of Gio. Ansaldo&C., Genoa, Italy on 24 June 1910, launched on 15 October a year later, completed on 14 May 1914, commissioned on 7 June was she decommissioned on 18 May 1928. Between 1933 and 1937 modernized/rebuilt was she again commissioned on 3 June 1937, since early 1942 training ship, decommissioned on 15 December 1948 and handed over to the Soviet navy on 4 February 1949. Renamed and used as a training ship until she sunk on 29 October 1955 due to a (German) mine explosion. Stricken on 24 February 1956, salvaged on 4 May 1957 and broken up.
