R.N. Conte di Cavour

The third Italian dreadnought to enter service. She, along with other battleships ensured the Austro-Hungarian fleet remained trapped in the Adriatic. Rebuilt in 1933-1937, she participated in the opening actions of ww2, mainly the battle off Calabria against the Mediterranean fleet. Hit by a torpedo during the Taranto raid, she was later salvaged and moved to Trieste to undergo a second modernization but never set sail again.

45mm · rebuilt configuration, 1937

R. Torp. P. Spica

The ship that named the class never fired a shot for Italy.

Sold to Sweden in March 1940 and renamed HSwMS Romulus. The Royal Navy interned her in the Faroes while she was still in transit. Her sisters stayed and did the fighting. Twenty-three of the thirty-two were lost.

45mm · double raised border · pennant SP

Marcantonio Bragadin

Look at the bow. That shape is a repair.

She ploughed badly on trials, so the yard bulked out the bow for buoyancy. It cost her speed and earned the class the nickname "big nose." She survived the war and was broken up in 1948.

45mm · Regia Marina crowned shield · post-1935 hull