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    The Regia Marina (Italian for 'Royal Navy'; pronounced [ˈrɛːdʒa maˈriːna]) (RM) or Royal Italian Navy was the navy of the Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia)...
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    Italian Armed Forces and was formed in 1946 from what remained of the Regia Marina (Royal Navy) after World War II. As of August 2014[update], the Italian...
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    an Italian Capitani Romani-class light cruiser, which served in the Regia Marina during World War II. As she commissioned in the spring of 1943, the majority...
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    World War, fought between naval forces of the Royal Navy and the Italian Regia Marina on 27 November 1940. On the night of 11 November 1940, the British incapacitated...
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    Galileo Galilei was one of four Archimede-class submarines built for the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) during the early 1930s. She was named after Galileo...
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    This is a list of destroyers of the Regia Marina and Marina Militare, sorted by era and class. Fulmine Lampo class Lampo Freccia Dardo Strale Euro Ostro...
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    The Regia Marina (Royal Navy) had its own air arm, operating locally built flying boats. The Italian air force became an independent service—the Regia Aeronautica—on...
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    Badoglio had a briefing with the senior commanders of the Regia Marina (Italy's Royal Navy) and the Regia Aeronautica (Italy's Royal Air Force), with the War...
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    the Battle of the Mediterranean in the Second World War. Ships of the Regia Marina were opposed by vessels of the Mediterranean Fleet. The battle took place...
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    1964 - 1989 Vittorio Veneto (1969) - BU 2006 List of battleships of Italy Incrociatori Marina Militare website (in Italian) Portals: Italy Engineering...
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  • List of corvette classes by country during the modern era (post 1940); (see also List of frigate classes and List of frigate classes by country) Nanuchka...
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    Esercito (Italian Royal Army) was to remain on the defensive as the Regia Marina and the Regia Aeronautica (Italian Royal Air Force) conducted offensive operations...
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    cruisers planned between 1900 and 1928, the Italian Royal Navy (Italian: Regia Marina) instead operated a number of scout cruisers (esploratori) from 1912...
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    cruiser HMS Ajax, three torpedo boats and seven destroyers of the Italian Regia Marina, in the central Mediterranean, to the south-east of Sicily, on the night...
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    with units from the Regio Esercito (Royal Army), Regia Aeronautica (Royal Air Force) and Regia Marina (Royal Navy). The Italian forces included about 250...
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    Starting in the 1890s, the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) began building a series of modern battleships. Early designs were marked by their small size...
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    the most part, the campaign was fought between the Italian Royal Navy (Regia Marina), supported by other Axis naval and air forces, those of Nazi Germany...
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    British convoy to Malta held off a much more powerful squadron of the Regia Marina (Italian Navy). The British convoy was composed of four merchant ships...
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    for the Regia Marina, 1930 Alberto di Giussano, cruiser built for the Regia Marina, 1930 Bartolomeo Colleoni, cruiser built for the Regia Marina, 1930 SS Rex...
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    unit. Berti could expect little support from the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina), because ten submarines had been lost since Italy declared war, the...
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    were a group of four super-dreadnought battleships designed for the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) in 1913 and ordered in 1914. The first ship of the...
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  • were lost. The submarine fleet available to the Italian Royal Navy (the Regia Marina) in World War II was the product of a long term build-up during the interwar...
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    Italian aircraft carrier Aquila (category Aircraft carriers of the Regia Marina)
    was never completed. Following World War I, the Italian Royal Navy (Regia Marina) began exploring the use of ship-borne aircraft by converting the merchant...
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    in the Mediterranean Sea. The attack struck the battle fleet of the Regia Marina at anchor in the harbour of Taranto, using aerial torpedoes despite the...
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    seaplane, serving in the Regia Marina between 1935 and 1943. The Ro.43 was designed to meet a 1933 requirement by the Regia Marina (the Italian navy) for...
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    off Cape Bon in Tunisia. When Italy declared war in June 1940, the Regia Marina was one of the largest navies in the world but it was restricted to operations...
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    the city of Rome, was the third Littorio-class battleship of Italy's Regia Marina (Royal Navy). The construction of both Roma and her sister ship Impero...
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    Italian training ship Amerigo Vespucci (category Training ships of the Regia Marina)
    La Spezia, Italy, and she is in use as a training ship. In 1925, the Regia Marina ordered two training ships to a design by General Lieutenant Francesco...
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    the Adriatic Sea, between the Royal Navy and the Italian Royal Navy (Regia Marina). In late 1940, Italian ships had been transporting men, equipment and...
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    were a group of three dreadnoughts built for the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) in the 1910s. The ships were completed during World War I. In December...
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