Italian battleship Impero

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Impero at her launch in 1939
Impero at her launch in 1939

The Impero was an Italian Littorio class battleship of the Regia Marina during World War II. She was the fourth ship of her class, named after the Italian word for Empire, in this case referred to the newly (1936) conquered Italian Empire in East Africa (Somaliland, Eritrea and Ethiopia territories). She was launched on February 15, 1939 but was never completed. Her hulk was scrapped after the war in Venice from 1948.


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