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Luigi Cadorna surrendering at Malta on 9 September 1943
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History | |
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Italy | |
Name | Luigi Cadorna |
Ordered | 29 October 1929 |
Builder | C.R.D.A., Trieste |
Laid down | 19 September 1930 |
Launched | 30 September 1931 |
Commissioned | 11 August 1933 |
Stricken | May 1951 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1951 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Condottieri-class cruiser |
Displacement |
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Length | 169.3 m (555 ft 5 in) |
Beam | 15.5 m (50 ft 10 in) |
Draught | 5.2 m (17 ft 1 in) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 37 knots (43 mph; 69 km/h) |
Range | 2,930 nmi (5,430 km) at 16 kn (18 mph; 30 km/h) |
Complement | 507 |
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Armour | |
Aircraft carried | 2 aircraft |
Aviation facilities | 1 catapult |
Luigi Cadorna was an Italian Condottieri-class light cruiser, which served in the Regia Marina during World War II; named after Italian Field Marshal Luigi Cadorna who was commander in Chief of the Italian Army during World War I.