| Wolfhag | 14 Jun 2016 1:49 p.m. PST |
Anyone who has been on a real naval ship should like this:
link Wolfhag |
Dave Jackson  | 14 Jun 2016 2:14 p.m. PST |
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| BuckeyeBob | 14 Jun 2016 2:38 p.m. PST |
The furniture style reminds me of that from the 1950's. I wonder what the date of the pictures are? I would think that the furnishings would be a lot more austere during WW2. |
 McKinstry  | 14 Jun 2016 2:48 p.m. PST |
I would not expect such a collection of flammable furniture and fixtures on any warship. |
 Saber6 | 14 Jun 2016 3:49 p.m. PST |
Ah, what happens when designers not engineers do the Admiral's Quarters |
| attilathepun47 | 14 Jun 2016 4:05 p.m. PST |
To BuckeyeBob: Apparently you missed the text. The ship was commissioned in 1942, and sunk in 1943. |
| Tom Bryant | 14 Jun 2016 4:35 p.m. PST |
IF those are photos from the Roma, then I would gather that they were pre-war and probably from "Officer's Country." I do agree that these photos look a little too stylish to be military. Maybe Il Duce was visiting the day the cameramen were there. |
| StarCruiser | 14 Jun 2016 4:58 p.m. PST |
Page 2 was full of "Officer's Country" shots – ward room, offices, state rooms etc… Page 1 has a lot of machinery spaces and the like. Italian ships built right before the war tended to be very nicely fitted out for warships. The Mussolini government wanted to brag about something other than the trains running on time! |
 Virtualscratchbuilder | 14 Jun 2016 5:05 p.m. PST |
These could not be prewar. . She was laid down in September 38 and not launched until June of 40. Construction would not have been advanced enough in 38-39 to allow for anything to be this finished. She was just frames and girders before the war. If I had a D20 around I would roll to disbelieve. |
| jgibbons | 14 Jun 2016 6:04 p.m. PST |
The furniture does look modern for the 40's.. |
| rmaker | 14 Jun 2016 6:26 p.m. PST |
Italy didn't get into the War until June 1940. "The hand that held the dagger …" |
| Dark Knights And Bloody Dawns | 15 Jun 2016 3:20 a.m. PST |
Meanwhile, back with the Royal Navy…
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| 138SquadronRAF | 15 Jun 2016 7:49 a.m. PST |
The furniture does look modern for the 40's.. it looked like it was a product of the 'Art Deco" movement to me, which would put it into the 1920s/30s aesthetic. |
| HobbyGuy | 15 Jun 2016 7:54 a.m. PST |
I love the Flat Panel TV, well advanced for the era. link |
| hindsTMP | 15 Jun 2016 9:49 a.m. PST |
Page 112 of the recent book "The Littorio Class" by Bagnasco and de Toro shows the same style of decor for the senior officers wardroom in Vittorio Veneto. Roma wasn't sufficiently complete to have interior decor pre-war. So these are almost certainly authentic wartime images. Nice link! Mark H. |
| wrgmr1 | 15 Jun 2016 1:46 p.m. PST |
Really! Nothing like a Canadian DE! |
| Captain Gideon | 16 Jun 2016 8:52 a.m. PST |
HobbyGuy if you look at the picture more closely it's a painting and not a flat screen tv just want to clear that up. |
