Italian sail training ship Amerigo Vespucci

This ship visited Fremantle for the first time last year. It was built during the Fascist era, so it must have survived the war somehow while virtually the rest of the Italian Navy did not. Does anyone know about this ship and its wartime history?

It was inactive during the war. It's sister ship - Christopher Columbus (sp?) was given to the Russians as war reparations.

Thanks. If it was holed up in a major port like Genova or Napoli, it must have escaped being bombed only narrowly.

Was there another of the class called the Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar)? I read that the Soviets took that one away at the same time as the Cristoforo Colombo, but don't know what kind of ship it was.

She was built in 1930, together with the sister ship 'Cristoforo Colombo'. During the war she was simply inactive. After the war the 'Cristoforo Colombo' was handed over to the USSR as part of the war reparations. So, there is no wartime history. Details of the ship itself can be found on Google. Rgds. Theo Horsten

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That one was a WWI-era battleship, heavily modernized between the