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Saturday, 2 December 2017

Italian battleship Caracciolo to be rebuilt as passenger ship according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1921


Thanks to Enrico and Lazer_one

An item referred to the Temps dated 5 November 1920 reporting that the Italian battleship Caracciolo of which the building was stopped, was sold to an Italian shipping company which intended to convert her for transporting emigrants.(1)

Note
1. Part of the Francesco Caracciolo-class designed between 1912-1913 and ordered in 1914 of which the lead hip was laid down in November 1914, followed by the other three ships in 1915. None was ever completed as a battleship. The conversion of the lead ship into a merchant ship was ended due to the high costs. Next was a conversion planned into an aircraft carrier but lacking budgets was she broken up in 1926.