Regia Marina — Cruiser class
Capitani Romani-class cruiser
Capitani Romani class
The class in numbers
- 12 Planned
- 4 Completed
- 8 Cancelled
- 4 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Navy
- Regia Marina
- Built
- 1939–1942
- In commission
- 1942–1980
- Builders
- Cantieri Navali Riuniti
- Navalmeccanica
- Odero Terni Orlando
- Subclasses
- San Giorgio-class destroyer
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 3,686 long tons (3,745 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 5,334 long tons (5,420 t)
- Length
- 142.2 m (466.5 ft) OA
- Speed
- 41 knots (75.9 km/h, 47.2 mph)
- Complement
- 418
- Main gun
- 135 mm (5.3 in)
- Armament
- 4 × twin 135 mm DP guns
- 8 × single 37 mm AA guns
- 4 × twin 20 mm AA guns
- 2 × quadruple 533 mm torpedo tubes
- 70 × mines
Roster
Holding 2 of the 4 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| French cruiser Châteaurenault (D 606) | D 606 | 1942 | Scrapped 1979 |
| Italian cruiser Scipione Africano | 1943 | Scrapped 1982 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Capitani Romani-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.