"What if the battleship Dante Aligiheri had not been" Topic
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| Tango01 | 29 Jun 2025 5:58 p.m. PST |
… scrapped and had been reconstructed instead? "After my recent blog post about the San Giorgio-class cruisers and the battleship Dante Aligiheri, I began wondering what might have happened if the latter had not been scrapped and had been reconstructed by the Italian Navy…"
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| HMS Exeter | 30 Jun 2025 11:58 a.m. PST |
She'd have traded 1 midships turret for 5 knots speed and conversion to a 100% oil fired configuration. The remaining 9 main guns would have been upgunned to 13". In a post WWI environment in which Italy could have afforded retaining DA, those funds would more probably have been used to complete Francesco Caracciolo. In service, DA would have subbed in in place of the lost Leonardo da Vinci, and been caught up in the WWII doleful tale of a national navy hobbled by air inferiority and being relegated to near the bottom of the pecking order for Axis fuel resources. Most likely she'd have ended up, just one more lottery loser, resting on the bottom of Taranto harbor. :《 |
| Tango01 | 30 Jun 2025 5:13 p.m. PST |
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| rmaker | 03 Jul 2025 9:28 a.m. PST |
I seem to remember that part of the decision to scrap the DA was due to the bad shape the hull was in. |
| Tango01 | 04 Jul 2025 5:40 p.m. PST |
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adds an infantry platoon to his WWI Brits.