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Battleship - Littorio

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The item offered here is a digital assembly instruction in PDF file format. There are no construction elements included in the offer! The image is a digitally created image and is only intended to represent the finished product. This model was created by a Community Designer designed. The assembly instructions have been reviewed and approved by Stone Heap. The instructions are structured differently like our standard PDF assembly instructions.

Number of bricks required: 3,320
Level of difficulty: Hard
Age recommendation: 18+
Designed by: count of brick

Scale 1:300
Length 79.7 cm
Wide 10.5 cm

The file for the sticker/print is included in the purchase.

The Littorio was an Italian battleship of the Littorio class of the Regia Marina during the Second World War. Littorio is the Italian term for lictor bundle, an alternative name for the fasces (pl. of fascis) from which the term fascism is derived. After the fall of fascism in Italy in 1943, the Littorio was renamed Italia.

The keel of the Littorio was laid at the Ansaldo shipyard in Genoa (Genova) on October 28, 1934.

The ship was launched on August 22, 1937 and officially commissioned on May 6, 1940, shortly before Italy entered the Second World War on the side of the Axis powers. The ship was only ready for service a few months later, as the crew was still undergoing training. The Littorio-class ships were the first battleships built under the Washington Naval Treaty to exceed the maximum size of 35,000 tons stipulated in the treaty.

After the fall of fascism and the arrest of Mussolini, the Littorio was renamed Italia on July 30, 1943. As part of the terms of the armistice, the Italian fleet was to surrender in Malta. On the night of September 8th to 9th, the battleships Roma, Vittorio Veneto and Italia (formerly Littorio) left the port of La Spezia together with three light cruisers and eight destroyers. As the Allied landing at Salerno was taking place at the same time, the Allies had instructed the Italians to keep their fleet away from this area, otherwise the fleet would be considered hostile and attacked. The Italian unit therefore set a course along the west coast of Corsica. After the Germans learned of the Italians' intentions, the Luftwaffe was immediately ordered to attack the Italian ships. Fifteen Dornier 217K bombers of the III Group of Fighter Wing 100 took off from Marseille, each armed with a steerable bomb of the Fritz X type. The Fritz X was one of the world's first guided bombs and had only been delivered to the front eleven days earlier, on August 29. Both the Allies and the Italians were completely unaware of the novel principle and mode of operation of this weapon.

The Italia was then interned together with her sister ship Vittorio Veneto in the Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal for the rest of the war. The Italia was scrapped in 1948.

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