Career (Italy)
Laid down:	18 September 1938
Launched:	9 June 1940
Commissioned:	14 June 1942
Status:	Sunk 9 September 1943
General Characteristics
Displacement:	43,624 tons standard, 45,752 tons full load RN Roma 1940 , Marina Militare official website [1] File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Italy_(1861-1946)_crowned. ... September 18 is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years). ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... June 9 is the 160th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (161st in leap years), with 205 days remaining. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... June 14 is the 165th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (166th in leap years), with 200 days remaining. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years). ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ...
Length:	224.5-237.8 m
Beam:	32.9 m
Draught:	10.5 m
Propulsion:	8 boilers, 4 shafts, 140,000 hp
Speed:	31.50 knots
Range:	3,920 miles at 20 knots
Complement:	1,830 (1,910 as flagship)
Armament:	3 × 3 381/50 mm 4 × 3 155/55 mm 12 × 90/50 mm AA 20 × 37/50 mm 30 × 20/65 mm
Aircraft carried:	3 aircraft

Roma was an Italian Vittorio Veneto class battleship that served in the Regia Marina during World War II. She was built in 1940. The Vittorio Venetos were the most modern battleship class of the Regia Marina, the Italian navy through World War II. They were also known as the Littorio or Italia class, after the first ship of class. ... The firepower of a battleship demonstrated by USS Iowa. ... The Italian Regia Marina (literally: Royal Navy) dates from the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861 after Italian unification. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

Roma was sunk on 9 September 1943, one day after the Italian government surrendered to the Allies, by a German Fritz X bomb launched from a Dornier Do 217 aircraft. It was thus the first capital ship to be sunk by a guided missile. She was en route to the surrender point when she exploded after being hit by two Fritz X bombs. The first one hit amidship between 90 mm AA gun mounts, piercing deck and side, then exploded halving speed; the other one hit above deck between turret #2 and the conning tower. It caused an explosion that threw the turret outboard and affected the boilers, starting a major fire that detonated the main magazines. 1353 lives were lost; only 596 survivors, most badly burned, were rescued. Among those killed was the Italian Commander in Chief of Naval Battle Forces, Admiral Carlo Bergamini [1]. September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years). ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... Look up ally in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Fritz X was a German air-launched anti-ship missile, deployed during World War II. Fritz X was an allied code-name; alternate names include Ruhrstahl SD 1400 X. History Development began in 1938. ... The Dornier Do 217 was a World War II medium bomber designed from scratch as a replacement for the venerable Dornier Do 17. ... A guided missile is a military rocket that can be directed in flight to change its flight path. ... Admiral is the rank, or part of the name of the ranks, of the highest naval officers. ...

Gallery

RN Roma sliding down the launching ways at the CRDA shipyard in Trieste, Italy, 9. June 1940 Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...	RN Roma under final outfitting at CRDA in summer 1942 No file by this name exists; you can upload it. ...	3D renderings Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 745 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (1024 × 824 pixel, file size: 362 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Other versions Roma51. ...
		RN Roma at La Spezia harbor in spring of 1943 Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 797 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (2048 × 1540 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 797 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (2048 × 1540 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 797 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (2048 × 1540 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 797 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (2048 × 1540 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 797 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (2048 × 1540 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 797 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (2048 × 1540 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 797 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (2048 × 1540 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 393 pixel Image in higher resolution (1418 × 696 pixel, file size: 220 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Italian battleship Roma...	The explosion of the Roma Image File history File links Italian_battleship_roma_hit. ...

External links

• Media on RN Roma (1942) in the Wikicommons.
• Page on the sinking of the Roma

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