Historical Italian Ships of The Regia Marina: A dream of Mare Nostrum

The Italian Navy was one of the major belligerents of the Mediterranean during the Second World War; during the three-year-long struggle for dominance the Italians lost; will you take control of the Regina Marina and dominate the Middle Sea?

The Regia Marina in 1936

At the outbreak of the second world war in 1939, Fascist Italy found itself as a spectator.
It was not until the German triumph over Franc in the spring of 1940 that Italy decided to join the war. The Italian Navy was one of the worlds largest and was one of the signatories of the Second London Naval Agreement (although they never followed the limitations of any of the preceding treaties).

The Italian Navy had an old and conservative leadership invested little in RADAR and electronic technology before the war.


Under Construction at game start:

Conte Di Cavour Class BB: 2 (actually a refit)
Littorio Class BB: 2
Montecuccoli Class CA: 1
Duca degli Abruzzi Class CL: 2
Maestrale Class DD: 2
Calvi Class SS: 1

Aircraft Carriers

As the Regina Marina was designed to operate in the Mediterranean, it was deemed sufficient to use land-based aircraft. However, the RM designed an aircraft carrier, the Gagnotto Class, during the heightened tension of the Italian-Ethiopian War. And had laid plans to convert the liner "Roma". It was not until the Raid on Taranto and the defeat at Cape Matapan that Italy seriously reconsidereds its reluctance towards carriers.

Gagnotto Class - Liner Conversion

Planned: 2
Completed: 0
The first plans to convert the Sparviero and Aquila. Discarded in favour of the Littorio Class battleship(s).

Hull	Converted Cruiser hull
Deck Space 1	ship_deck_space
Deck Space 2	ship_deck_space
Anti-Air	ship_anti_air_2
Radar/Sonar
Engine	Parsons 106,000hp
Secondaries
Armor

Aquila Class

Completed: 1/2
Plans: 1
34 Aircraft

Hull	1936 Carrier Hull
Deck Space 1	ship_deck_space
Deck Space 2	ship_deck_space
Anti-Air	ship_anti_air_2
Radar/Sonar	radar_2
Engine	Carrier_engine_3
Secondaries	dp_ship_secondaries_3
Armor
Front 1
Mid 1

Sparviero Class

Completed: 0
Plans: 0
51 aircraft; 51 x Reggiane Re. 2001

Hull	1936 Carrier Hull
Deck Space 1	ship_deck_space
Deck Space 2	ship_deck_space
Anti-Air	ship_anti_air_2
Radar/Sonar	radar_2
Engine	Cruiser_engine_1
Secondaries	dp_ship_secondaries_3
Armor	Cruiser_armor_1
Front 1	ship_deck_space
Mid 1

Bozzoni Class

(BB Roma)
34 aircraft: 16F+9NAV

Hull	Converted Battleship Hull
Deck Space 1	ship_deck_space
Deck Space 2	ship_deck_space
Anti-Air	ship_anti_air_2
Radar/Sonar	radar_2
Engine	heavy_engine_3
Secondaries
Armor	Cruiser_armor_3
Mid 1

Battleships

Andrea Doria-class

Planned: 2
Constructed: 2
Reconstructed 1937-1940

Hull	Early Heavy Hull	Caio Duilio Class (refit 1937-40)
Battery	ship_heavy_battery_1	ship_heavy_battery_1
Anti-Air	ship_anti_air_1	ship_anti_air_1
Fire-Control	ship_fire_control_system_0	ship_fire_control_system_0
Radar/Sonar
Engine	heavy_ship_engine_1	heavy_ship_engine_2
Secondaries	ship_secondaries_1	ship_secondaries_1
Armor	ship_armor_bb_1	ship_armor_bb_1
Front 1	ship_anti_air_1	ship_anti_air_1
Mid 1	ship_secondaries_1	ship_secondaries_1
Mid 2		ship_anti_air_1
Rear 1	ship_heavy_battery_1	ship_heavy_battery_1

Conte di Cavour-class: 2

Constructed: 3
Remaining: 2
NB!Under refitting at game start

Hull	Early Heavy Hull
Battery	ship_heavy_battery_1
Anti-Air	ship_anti_air_1
Fire-Control	ship_fire_control_system_0
Radar/Sonar
Engine	heavy_ship_engine_2
Secondaries	ship_secondaries_1
Armor	ship_armor_bb_1
Front 1
Mid 1	ship_secondaries_1	Floatplane Catapult II
Mid 2	ship_airplane_launcher_1
Rear 1	ship_heavy_battery_1

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Littoria Class

Planned: 4
Constructed: 3
1936 Heavy Hull

	At game start
Battery	ship_heavy_battery_2
Anti-Air	ship_anti_air_1
Fire-Control	ship_fire_control_system_0
Radar/Sonar
Engine	heavy_ship_engine_3
Secondaries	ship_secondaries_2
Armor	ship_armor_bb_2
Front 1	ship_anti_air_1
Mid 1	ship_secondaries_2
Mid 2	ship_airplane_launcher_2
Rear 1	ship_heavy_battery_2

Name List:

• Littorio, Vitterio Veneto, Roma, Impero

Heavy Cruisers (CA)

The heavy cruiser branch of the Regina Marina is historically completed at the beginning of the Game. With Bolzano as the last heavy cruiser built.

San Georgio / San Marco

Constructed: 2
Remaining: 1
The second "San Georgio"-class ship is strangely not constructed at game-start, even while the ship was one of the older armoured cruisers of the Italian Navy - and that her sister ship, San Georgio already is constructed.
Thus her name pops up during the Light Cruiser construction chain as "San Marco".
The ship was historically set up as a targeting ship in the 1920s and repatriated in 1943 by Nazi-Germany shortly before scuttling her again.

Coastal Defense Ship

	Original	Refit
Battery	ship_medium_battery_1	ship_heavy_battery_1
Anti-Air	ship_anti_air_1
Fire-Control	ship_fire_control_system_0
Radar/Sonar
Engine	cruiser_ship_engine_1
Secondaries	ship_secondaries_1
Armor	ship_armor_cruiser_2
Front 1	ship_anti_air_1
Mid 1	ship_secondaries_1
Mid 2
Rear 1		ship_torpedo_1*

Trento Class

Planned: 2
Constructed: 2
Early Cruiser Hull

	Original	Refit
Battery	ship_medium_battery_1
Anti-Air	ship_anti_air_1
Fire-Control	ship_fire_control_system_0
Radar/Sonar
Engine	cruiser_ship_engine_2
Secondaries
Armor	ship_armor_cruiser_1
Mid 1	ship_medium_battery_1
Mid 2	ship_airplane_launcher_1
Rear 1	ship_anti_air_1

Zara Class

Planned: 4
Constructed: 4
Early Cruiser Hull

	Original	Refit
Battery	ship_medium_battery_1
Anti-Air	ship_anti_air_1	Anti-Air III
Fire-Control	ship_fire_control_system_0
Radar/Sonar
Engine	cruiser_ship_engine_2
Secondaries
Armor	ship_armor_cruiser_2
Mid 1	ship_medium_battery_1
Mid 2	ship_airplane_launcher_1
Rear 1	ship_anti_air_1

Bolzano

Constructed: 1
MIO:
1936 Cruiser Hull

	Original	Refit
Battery	ship_medium_battery_1
Anti-Air	ship_anti_air_1
Fire-Control	ship_fire_control_system_0
Radar/Sonar
Engine	cruiser_ship_engine_2
Secondaries
Armor	ship_armor_cruiser_1
Front 1		ship_torpedo_1
Mid 1	ship_medium_battery_1
Mid 2	ship_airplane_launcher_1	ship_airplane_launcher_2
Rear 1	ship_anti_air_1

Light Cruisers (CL)

The Regina Marinas light cruiser component was designed to be faster than their opponent (mainly the British)....

Taranto Class

Constructed: 2
The in-game taranto class is in reality two ships transferred from the German Navy in 1920s.
Early Cruiser Hull

• Light-Medium Battery 1
  
• AA: N/A
  
• FTC 0
  
• Radar: N/A
  
• Engine 1
  
• Secondaries: N/A
  
• Armor 1
  
• M1: Torpedo 1
  
• M2: N/A
  
• R1: Mine Layer

Giussano Class

Planned: 4
Constructed: 4
1936 Cruiser Hull

• Light-Medium Battery 2
  
• Anti-Air 2
  
• FTC 0
  
• Engine 2
  
• F1:
  
• M1: Torpedo 1
  
• M2: Catapult 1
  
• R1: Light-Medium Battery 2
  

Montecuccoli Class

Planned: 2
Constructed: 2
Montecuccoli, which gives the name to its own sub-class, was part of the third group of Condottieri-class light cruisers of the Italian Navy.

• Light-Medium Battery 2
  
• Anti-Air 2
  
• FTC 0
  
• Engine 2
  
• Armor 1
  
• F1: Anti-air 1
  
• M1: Torpedo 1
  
• M2 Catapult 1
  
• R1: Light-Medium Battery 2

Duca degli Abruzzi Class

Planned:
Constructed: 2

• Light-Medium Battery 2
  
• Anti-air 2
  
• FTC 0
  
• Engine 2
  
• Armor 2
  
• F1: Anti-air 2
  
• M1: Torpedo 1
  
• M2: Catapult 1
  
• R1: Light-Medium Battery 2

---1936-1945---

Capitani Romani Class

Planned: 12
Completed: 4
Designed to operate as a scout cruiser.

Hull	1940 cruiser hull
Battery	ship_light_battery_3
Anti-Air	ship_anti_air_3
Fire-Control	ship_fire_control_system_2
Radar/Sonar	Radar_2
Engine	cruiser_ship_engine_3
Secondaries
Armor
Front 1	ship_anti_air_2
Mid 1
Mid 2	ship_torpedo_3
Rear 1	ship_light_battery_3
Rear 2	ship_mine_laying_1

Etna Class Anti-Aircraft Cruiser

Planned: 2
Constructed: 0
Builder: CRDA

Hull	1940 cruiser hull
Battery	dp_light_battery_3
Anti-Air	ship_anti_air_3
Fire-Control	ship_fire_control_system_2
Radar/Sonar
Engine	cruiser_engine_1
Secondaries
Armor	ship_cruiser_armor_1
Front 1	ship_anti_air_2
Mid 1	ship_anti_air_2
Mid 2	Minelaying Rails
Rear 1	dp_light_battery_3

Names: Etna, Vesuvio

Destroyers

Destroyers were warships between 1000 to 3000 metric tons.

Aquila/Poerio Class

Constructed: 4
In-Service: 2
Originally built for the Romanian Naval Forces in 1913, two of the four Aquila class ships were seized by the Italians in 1915 and rearmed as Esploratori cruisers.
Eventually reclassified as destroyers in 1938 and sold to Nationalist spain in 1939.
Early Light Hull

• Light Battery 1
  
• Anti-air 1
  
• FTC 0
  
• Torpedo 1
  
• Engine 1
  
• M1: Mine layer
  
• R1:

Mirabello/Leone Class

Constructed: 6
Remaining: 5

• Leone, Pantera, Tigre, Carlo Mirabello, Augusto Riboty
  1936 Light Hull
  
  • Light Battery 1
    
  • Anti-air 1
    
  • FTC 0
    
  • Torpedo 1
    
  • Engine 1
    
  • M1: Mine layer 1
    
  • R1: Light Battery 1
  
  

  Sella Class DD

  • 4 Sella Class: Bettino Riscacoli, Fransesco Crispi, Giovanni Nicotera, Quintino Sella
    
  • 4 Sauro Class: Cesare Battisti, Daniele Manin, Francesco Nullo, Nazario Sauro
    
  • 4 Turbine Class: Aquilone, Borea, Espero, Euro, Nembo, Ostro, Turbine, Zeffiro
  Completed: 16
  Early Light Hull
  
  • Light Battery 1
    
  • Anti-Air 1
    
  • FTC 0
    
  • Torpedo 1
    
  • Engine 1
    
  • M1: Mine Layer
    
  • R1: Depth Charge 1
  
  
  

  Navigatori Class DD

  Built: 12
  1936 Light Hull
  
  • Light Battery 2
    
  • Anti-air 1
    
  • FTC 0
    
  • Torpedo 1
    
  • Engine 2
    
  • M1: Mine layer
    
  • R1: Depth Charge 1
  
  
  

  Freccia/Folgore Class

  • 4 Freccia: Dardo, Freccia, Saetta, Strale
    
  • 4 Folgore: Baleno, Folgore, Fulmine, Lampo
  Early destroyer hull
  
  • Light Battery 2
    
  • Anti-air 1
    
  • FTC 0
    
  • Torpedo 1
    
  • Engine 2
    
  • M1: Mine layer 1
    
  • R1: Depth Charge 1
  
  
  

  Maestrale/Oriani Class

  • 4 Maestrale: Grecale, Libeccio, Maestrale, Scirocco
    
  • 4 Alfredo Orian, Vittorio Alfieri, Giosuè Carducci, Vincenzo Gioberti
  Total: 12
  1936 Light Hull
  
  • Light Battery 1
    
  • Anti-air 1
    
  • FTC 0
    
  • Torpedo 1
    
  • Engine 2
    
  • M1: Mine layer 1
    
  • R1: Depth Charge 1

Destroyers - continued

Soldati Class

Constructed: 12 + 5
Planned: 12 + 19
MIO: OTO

1936 Light Hull

• Light Battery 1
  
• Anti-air 2
  
• FTC 0
  
• Torpedo 1
  
• Engine 2
  
• M1: Mine Layer
  
• R1: Depth Charge 1

Commandanti Medaglio d'Oro Class

Planned: 20
Constructed: 0

Hull	1940 Destroyer Hull
Battery	dp_light_battery_3
Anti-Air	ship_anti_air_3
Fire-Control	sonar_2
Radar/Sonar	radar_2
Torpedoes	ship_torpedoes_2
Engine	light_ship_engine_3
Mid 1	ship_depth_charge_2
Rear 1	ship_mine_laying_1

Torpedo Boats

Curtatone Class

Total Constructed: 34
Total Remaining: 33
All of the ships belonging to the Curtatone-Class was reclassified from destroyers to torpedo boats in 1938.

Hull	Early Destroyer Hull	Refit
Battery	ship_light_battery_1
Anti-Air	ship_anti_air_1
Fire-Control	ship_fire_control_system_0
Radar/Sonar
Torpedoes	ship_torpedo_1
Engine	light_ship_engine_1
Mid 1
Rear 1		Minelaying

• 8 Rosolino Pilo: 1913-16
  
• 4 Giuseppe Sirtori: 1916-1917
  
• 7 La Masa: 1917-19
  
• 4 Palestro: 1917-23
  
• 6 Generali: 1921-22
  
• 4 Curtatone: 1920-24

Spica Class

Planned:
Constructed: 32

Hull	Early light hull	Refit 1941
Battery	dp_light_battery_1	-,-
Anti-Air	ship_anti_air_2
Fire-Control	ship_fire_control_system_0
Radar/Sonar		Hydrophones
Torpedoes	ship_torpedo_1
Engine	light_ship_engine_1
Mid 1	ship_depth_charge_2	ship_depth_charge_3
Rear 1	ship_mine_laying_1

Orsa Class

Constructed: 4

	1936 Destroyer Hull	Refit 1941
Battery	dp_light_battery_1
Anti-Air	ship_anti_air_2
Fire-Control	ship_fire_control_system_1
Radar/Sonar	Sonar
Torpedoes	ship_torpedo_1
Engine	light_ship_engine_1
Mid 1	ship_depth_charge_2	ship_depth_charge_3
Rear 1	ship_mine_layer_1

Names:

• Pegaso, Procione, Orione, Orsa

Ciclone Class

Numbers built: 16

Hull	1940 Destroyer Hull
Battery	dp_light_battery_1
Anti-Air	ship_anti_air_2
Fire-Control	ship_fire_control_system_1
Radar/Sonar
Torpedoes	ship_torpedo_2
Engine	light_ship_engine_1
Front 1	ship_mine_layer_2
Mid 1	ship_mine_layer_2
Rear 1	Minelaying Rails

Submarine

H-Class

X Class

Name	Age
Torpedo Tubes	ship_torpedo_sub_1
Engines	sub_ship_engine_1
Rear 1	ship_mine_layer_sub

Archimede Class

Name	Age
Torpedo Tubes	ship_torpedo_sub_1
Engines	sub_ship_engine_1
Rear 1

Mameli Class

	Original
Torpedo Tubes	ship_torpedo_sub_1
Engines	sub_ship_engine_1
Rear 1

Mameli (4) & Pisani (4), Balilla (4) [and 5 unnamed numbered submarines]

Bandiera Class

Produced: 11
Bandiera (4), Squalo (4), Settebrini (2) & Fieramosca (1) Classes

	Original
Torpedo Tubes	ship_torpedo_sub_1
Engines	sub_ship_engine_1
Rear 1

• 4 x 533mm TT
  
• Fiat Diesels 1,200hp
  
• [Empty Slot]

Calvi Class

Planned: 3
Completed: 3
1936 Submarine Hull

	Original
Torpedo Tubes	ship_torpedo_sub_1
Engines	sub_ship_engine_1
Rear 1	ship_torpedo_sub_1

Bragadin Class

Planned: 2
Completed: 2
1936 submarine hull (1922)

	Original
Torpedo Tubes	ship_torpedo_sub_1
Engines	sub_ship_engine_1
Rear 1	ship_mine_layer_sub

Marcello Class

Constructed: 9+2*
1936 Submarine Hull

	Original
Torpedo Tubes	ship_torpedo_sub_1
Engines	sub_ship_engine_2
Rear 1	ship_torpedo_sub_1

Brin Class

Constructed: 5
1940 Submarine Hull

• 4 x 533mm TT
  
• Tosi Diesels 3,400hp (III)
  
• 4 x 533mm TT

Liuzzi Class

Marconi (6), Cagni (4)
Planned:
Constructed:
1940 submarine hull

• 4 x 533mm TT
  
• Tosi Diesels 3,400hp
  
• 4 x 533mm TT

Flutto class: 13 (48)
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Misc:
Pietro Micca class minelaying submarine: 4
Pietro Micca (1), Foca (3)
1936 submarine hull
6 x 533 mm TTs
Minelaying tubes

600-Series (Submarine)

The 600-series was a series of coastal submarines for the Royal Italian Navy. The only difference in-game would be upgrading the MIO.

Sirena Class

Completed: 12 (+5)
Early Submarine Hull

	Original
Torpedo Tubes	ship_torpedo_sub_1
Engines	sub_ship_engine_1
Rear 1

Perla Class

Constructed: 10
Early Submarine Hull

	Original
Torpedo Tubes	ship_torpedo_sub_1
Engines	sub_ship_engine_1
Rear 1

Adua Class

Completed: 17Early submarine hull

	Original
Torpedo Tubes	ship_torpedo_sub_1
Engines	sub_ship_engine_1
Rear 1

Acciaio Class

Completed: 13Early submarine hull

	Original
Torpedo Tubes	ship_torpedo_sub_1
Engines	sub_ship_engine_1
Rear 1

Minelayers "Posamine"

Azio Class

Completed: 6

Early Destroyer Hull

Battery	102mm/35 Model 1914
Anti-Air
Fire-Control
Radar/Sonar
Torpedoes
Engine	Beluzzo 36,000hp
Locked
Mid 1	Minesweeping Gear
Rear 1	Minelaying Rails

Brioni Class auxiliary mine-layers

Completed: 7
Early Cruiser Hull

Battery	120mm
Anti-Air
Fire-Control
Radar/Sonar
Torpedoes
Engine	Parsons 60,000hp
Armor
Mid 1
Mid 2
Rear 1

Pangigaglia Class

Constructed: 3
Early light hull (1922)

Battery	102mm/35 Model 1914
Anti-Air
Fire-Control
Radar/Sonar
Torpedoes
Engine	Beluzzo 36,000hp
Locked
Mid 1	Minesweeping Gear
Rear 1	Minelaying Rails

Other guides

Naval Guides

The Allies:

• The Royal Navy: A historical guide to naval construction 1936-1945
  
• Marine Nationale: French Naval building 1936-1945
  
• US Navy: A Two Ocean Navy

Axis:

• Die Kriegsmarine & Der Z-Plan: A guide to historical naval construction 1936-1945
  
• The Regina Marina: A guide to historical naval construction 1936-1945
  
• The Imperial Japanese Navy: A guide to historical naval construction 1936-1945

Comintern:
Stalin´s Oceangoing Navy

Tank Guides:

The Allies:

• United Kingdom Historical Tank Guide
  
• United States Historical Tank Guide

The Axis

• German Historical Tank Guide
  
• Italian guide to historical tanks

The Cominterns

• Soviet Historical Tank Guide

Captured Ships

Dubrovnik RCT Premuda

140mm
37mm/20mm
48,000 hp
533mm TT
4 DCL

RCT Šibenik & RCT Ljubljana

(Beograd)
120mm
20mm
40,000hp
550mm TT
DCT/DCR

[crazy rocker]

The Italian navy rarely left port. when it did it got wiped out in 5 mins by a royal navy taskforce that ambushed it.
Royal navy lured the fleet out with smaller ships and kept their carriers and big ships out of sight then pulled back and used radar to track it as Italy didnt have any radar on their ships. then as night fell the royal navy snuck up on it and at point blank range turned on its searchlights and lit up the Italian fleet and opened fire from all sides and sank the whole fleet in 5 mins and the Italians didnt even get a shot off. Most of Italies big ships were in port being repaired after they were hit by bombs and torpedoes from British carrier planes. But a couple of the cruisers got sunk in that battle and the Italian navy ceased to exist as a fighting force.

[rylan9019]

You forgot Submarines btw