The largest and most powerful warships ever built in Italy, the battleships of the Littorio class, were the first “35,000 tonners” to come under the provisions of the Washington Treaty. Although the Washington Navel Conference of 1922 gave Italy the authority to build up to 182,800 tons of new capital ships (including 70,000 tons prior to 1932), the Italians waited more than a decade before beginning construction. The RN Vittorio Veneto was commissioned 1 May 1940. Her first mission of World War II came 31 August 1940 as part of the concentration of the Italian battleships to put to sea during the war. She participated in a mission to challenge the British Mediterranean Fleet based at Alexandria, Egypt. The RN Vittorio Veneto was inactive until November 1940. The last combat mission was The Convoy Battle in June 1942. The ship was sent to Genoa for repairs where it remained and was later returned to La Spezia. There she was to remain until the Italian surrender in September 1943. She was decommissioned on 3 January 1948. The Paris Peace Treaty ceded the ship to Great Britain; the British government permitted the Italians to scrap her. This was done in La Spezia during 1948-1950.
During the war in the Mediterranean Sea, Vittorio Veneto took part in 56 war missions, 11 of them sorties against enemy shipping.
- 1 Sepetember 1940: operation Hats
- 29 September 1940: operation MB 5
- 11 November 1940: Battle of Taranto
- 17 November 1940: operation White
- 27 November 1940: Battle of Cape Spartivento or Battle of Cape Teulada;
- 27 March 1941: Battle of Gavdos island.
- 28 March 1941: Battle of Matapan.
- 27 September 1941: convoy Albert to Malta.
- 14 December 1941: cancelled Italian convoys in the Mediterranean Sea.
- 15 June 1942: Vittorio Veneto also participated in the Battle of Mid- June, where she and her sister ship Littorio successfully fenced off a large British convoy from Alexandria by their mere presence at sea.
- 9 September 1943: surrender of the Italian fleet.
Afmetingen;
- Lang; 33.7 mm.
- Breed; 47 mm.
Features:
- Hull; slide-molded upper hull and lower hull
Deck wood pattern finely rendered
Either waterline or full-hull version can be assembled - Aircraft
Contain 2 RO.43 planes and 3 RE.2000 planes - Stand
Contains display stand
