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Italian Battleship Littorio | olspan="2" align="center"| | | tyle="color: white; height: 30px; background:navy;"|Career | style="background:navy;align:right;"|Kingdom of Italy | | rdered: | | | aid down: | 28 October 1934 | | aunched: | 22 August 1937 | | ommissioned: | 6 May 1940 | | ecommissioned: | | | ate: | Scrapped | | truck: | 1 June 1948 | | olspan="2" style="color: white; height: 30px; background:navy;"|General Characteristics | | isplacement: | 43,835 tons standard, 45,963 tons full load | | ength: | 224.5 - 237.8 m | | eam: | 32.9 m | | raught: | 10.5 m | | ropulsion: | 8 boilers, 4 shafts, 140,000 hp | | peed: | 30 knots (54 km/h) | | ange: | 3,920 miles at 20 knots | | omplement: | 1,920 | | rmament: | 3x3 11 inch/50 (381mm), 4x3 155/55 mm, 12 90/50 mm (anti-aircraft), 20 37/50 mm, 30 20/65 mm | | ircraft: | 3 | | rotection: | max 350 mm (vertical) 207 mm (horizontal) | Littorio was an Italian Vittorio Veneto class battleship, that served in the Regia Marina during the World War II. Her keel was laid down 1934 at Ansaldo, Genoa; she was launched in 1937, and her construction was completed in 1940, after Italy entered in war against France and United Kingdom. With the fall of Fascism, it was renamed Italia. After the war she was taken by the United States as war compensation, but was scrapped in 1948. The Littoria class was designed by general Umberto Pugliese, and was the first battleship which overran the limits of the Washington Treaty (35,000 tons of displacement). She was the best unit in the world in 1939, because of her equilibrium of firepower, protection and speed. Actions 1940 1941 1942 1943 Littorio participated in 46 war missions, among which 9 of enemy hunting and 3 as escort. After the 8 September 1943 armistice, she was positioned in the Great Bitter Lake, in Egypt, until the end of the war. Littorio
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