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Caio Mario

Leichter Kreuzer  Capitani Romani  Class


Capitani Romani Class

Laid down as Italian Esploratori / Incrociatori Ieggeri Caio Mario


Contruction Data

Laid down:     O.T.O Livorno, 28.09.1939
Launched:     17.08.1941
Commissioned:     
Fate:     scuttled 1944
Costs:     

Technical Data

Size:     5420 t
Length:     142,9 m
Beam:     14,40 m
Draft:     3,96 m
Armament:     8 x 13,5 cm; 8 x 3,7 cm; 8 x 2 cm; 8 x 53,3 cm torpedo tubes;
  70 mines
Performance:     110000 shp, 40 kn

History

The Capitani Romani class was a class of 12 fast but only very lightly protected cruisers laid down in Italy in 1939. They were comparable to the so called Spähkreuzer which were planned in the German Z-Plan. 5 of those ships were captured by the Germans in September 1943 which were still under construction.

Caio Mario was captured in La Spezia, only the hull was completed. The ship was used as a floating oil tank and scuttles in 1944.


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