Italian Navy June 1940


4 Battleship plus a further 4 fitting out
8 heavy cruiser

  • Trieste, Trento, Bolzano, Fiume, Gorizia, Zara, Pola
    14 light cruiser
  • Bari, Taranto, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Kuigi di Savoia Duca degli Abruzzi, Eugenio di Savoia, Emanuele Filiberto Duca d'Aosta, Raimondo Montecuccoli, Muzio Attendolo, Bartolomeo Colleoni, Giovanni delle Bande Nere, Luigi Cadorna, Alberico da Barbiano,Alberto di Giussano, Armando Diaz.
    128 destroyer
    62 motor torpedo boats
    115 submarine

    Personnel 4,180 officer 70,500 men rising to 190,000 through out the 1940-1942.

    From June 1940 to September 1943 the Navy lost 24,660 men, 1 battleship and 13 cruisers with total losses of 339 ships.

    Taranto command

  • 2 Battleships
  • 44 destroyer and torpedo-boats
  • 22 submarines
  • 16 motor torpedo-boats
  • 2 minelayer
  • 4 escort and patrol craft

    Venice command

  • 8 destroyer and torpedo-boats
  • 4 submarines
  • 16 motor torpedo-boats
  • 1 escort and patrol craft

    La Spezia command

  • 21 destroyer and torpedo-boats
  • 36 submarines
  • 26 motor torpedo-boats
  • 1 minelayer
  • 3 escort and patrol craft

    Naples command

  • 4 cruisers
  • 18 destroyer and torpedo-boats
  • 11 submarines
  • 6 motor torpedo-boats
  • 3 minelayer
  • 1 escort and patrol craft

    Sicily command

  • 24 destroyer and torpedo-boats
  • 26 submarines
  • 12 motor torpedo-boats
  • 2 minelayer
  • 3 escort and patrol craft

    Dodecanese command

  • 6 destroyer and torpedo-boats
  • 8 submarines
  • 20 motor torpedo-boats
  • 1 minelayer

    Red Sea command

  • 9 destroyer and torpedo-boats
  • 8 submarines
  • 5 motor torpedo-boats
  • 4 escort and patrol craft

    The Red Sea command was destroyed in 1941

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