The Soviet Destroyer That Became an Italian Light Cruiser

In this video we will discuss the Regia Marina design for a rather small light cruiser, the Capitani Romani class. Certainly there is an argument to be made that these are large destroyers. Seeing how a lot of there design came from the Soviet Union's destroyer Tashkent.

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[ImportantNavalHistory]

So what do you guys think about this new thumbnail style?

[JeffAM]

Absolutely love Regina Marina and Marine Nationale history during the period. Keep the Regina Marina content rolling.

[derrickstorm]

Love the amount of original, period photographs 🙌

[Trident]

Get in touch with Drachinifel. I'm sure Drach could point you in the right direction for WWII USSR naval history. He stops at 1950.

[waynesworldofsci-tech]

I think we waste far too much time worried about what ship type a class is, as compared to how well it filled both its intended and actual employment.

[warpp]

Even though they were apparently designed to counter the newest large French destroyers, I consider the class to be a follow-up generation of small high speed light cruisers, which the Italians had been famous for commissioning since the early 1930s, despite their flaws.

[dariomasi]

The early italian oceanic scouts design predate Tashkent's design by quite a while actually, Ufficio Progetti (italy's main design place for ships) tinkered for a while with designs with actual armor, and some others with quite peculiar arrangements, one of wich had a broadside of 7 guns, 7 beacose 2 of her 135mm mounts were in WW1 style one per side mounts (so 3 double mounts and 2 singles)
As for the service of the ships you got some things incorrect, Attilio Regolo was not interned until the end WW2, just like Carabiniere she was able to leave in early spring 1945, tough unlike Carabiniere wich had a famous late ww2 career in the pacific theater, Regolo did not do much after that.
Also you missed an important service history, Giulio Germanico while technically not in service did fight at Genoa agaisnt the germans, after some talk her captain tried to do some sort of quasi-armistice with the germans, the traitourus germans then executed him just after he entered the place the meeting was to be held.
As for the stuff about post armistice "sailing to be interned" no, the armistice terms only talked about ships having to "sail to determined allied positions", with the matter of what the ships had to do to be decided only after that, wich was the 27TH of september 1943 armistice, wich stipulated and i quote "hencefort all italian ships will remain ships of Italy and fight alongside the United nations against the Axis"

[greggi]

I enjoy your vids, as well as Drachinifel"s. One thing, though" none of the ships was "interred", that is, buried. The term is "interned".

[sftommy]

Surprised to hear you mention Franco as a naval rival, then realized you didn't mean Spain's Franco.😄