Category: ww1 Italian Navy

Protected Cruiser Piemonte (1888) Italy (1888) A quite powerful Italian protected cruiser Piemonte was designed at the request of the…

Vettor Pisani class armoured cruisers (1895) Italy (1895) – Vettor Pisani, Carlo Alberto These two armoured cruisers succeeded the unique…

Amiraglio Di St Bon class Battleships (1897) Italy – Regia Marina Adm. Di St Bon, Emanuele Filiberto Battleships on a…

Regia Marina (1911) Battleships Guilio Cesare, Conte di Cavour, Leonardo Da Vinci The new Italian Battleships The first Italian dreadnought…

Marco Polo (1892) Italian Armoured Cruiser (1888) The First Italian Armoured Cruiser The Marco Polo was the first Italian armoured…

Grillo class tracked torpedo launches (1918) Italy (1918) Tracked MTB or amphibious tank ? The Grillo is one of the…

Re Umberto class ironclads (1883) Italy (1883) Re Umberto, Sicilia, Sardegna A new kind of battleship In 1883, the first…

Etna class protected cruisers (1885) Italy (1885) Etna, Vesuvio, Stromboli, Fieramosca The first Italian modern protected cruisers: Etna was the…

Caio Duilio class ironclads (1879) Caio Duilio, Dandolo A concentrate of innovations: Caio Duilio was the lead ship of the…