Caio Duilio |
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| Class overview | |
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| Builders: | Italcantieri |
| Operators: | Marina Militare |
| Preceded by: | Giuseppe Garibaldi |
| Succeeded by: | Vittorio Veneto |
| In service: | 1964 |
| In commission: | 1958 - 1992 |
| Completed: | 3 |
| Cancelled: | 1 |
| Retired: | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 5,000 tons (standard) 6,500 tons (loaded) |
| Length: | 149.3 m |
| Beam: | 17.3 m |
| Draught: | 5.0 m |
| Propulsion: | 2 shaft geared turbines 4 Foster Wheeler boilers, 60,000 hp (45,000 kW) |
| Speed: | 31 kn (57 km/h) |
| Range: | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h) |
| Complement: | 485 |
| Armament: | 1 × Mk 10 twin-arm launcher with 40 RIM-2 Terrier SAM Oto Melara 8 x 76/62mm MMI or 76/62 mm Compact gun 2 x 324 mm triple torpedo tubes |
| Aircraft carried: | 4 helicopters |
The Andrea Doria was a class of helicopter cruisers of the Marina Militare. They were Italy's first major new designs of the post–World War II era. These ships were primarily designed for ASW tasks.
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The class consisted of two vessels, Andrea Doria and Caio Duilio, both commissioned in 1964 and in service into the late 1980s. A third, Enrico Dandolo (C555), was cancelled. The Andrea Doria class formed the basis for the larger cruiser Vittorio Veneto, which replaced the Andrea Dorias' superstructure hangar with a hangar in the hull.[1]