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Pietro de Cristofaro class Corvette

Pietro De Cristofaro (F540), Salvatore Todaro (F550), Umberto Grosso (F541), Licio Visintini (F546) 1963-65, active 1990s Background Following the disappointing…

cold war Italian Navy

Albatros-class Corvette (1954)

Built 1954-58: Albatros, Alcione, Airone, Aquila, Bellona*, Diana*, Flora*, Triton*, Lynx*, Pattimura**, Sultan Hasanudin** The Albatros class was a class…

1870 Italian Fleet Italian Navy 1890

Vedetta (1866)

Italy, Iron-Hulled Aviso, In Service: 1869-1903 During the time of Italian Unification, much of the fighting occurred on land between…

1890 fleets Italian Navy 1890

Ruggiero di Lauria class Ironclads (1884)

Ironclad Battleships (1879-1895): Ruggiero di Lauria, Francesco Morosini, Andrea Doria Italian Ironclad Battleships Caio Duilio class (1879) | Italia class…

Industrial-era-Navies

The Great Clippers (1820-1870)

Introduction For once, we left the guns to rest, and turn the bar back in time, with one of the…