Dimensions
- Displacement
- 5420 t
- Length
- 142,9 m
- Beam
- 14,40 m
- Draft
- 3,96 m
5420 tDisplacement
142,9 mLength
40 knSpeed
17.08.1941Launch
Wartime history
Capture and fate
The Capitani Romani class was a class of 12 fast but only very lightly protected cruisers laid down in Italy in 1939. They were comparable to the so called Spähkreuzer which were planned in the German Z-Plan. 5 of those ships were captured by the Germans in September 1943 which were still under construction. Caio Mario was captured in La Spezia, only the hull was completed. The ship was used as a floating oil tank and scuttles in 1944.
Ship data
Technical profile
Dimensions, armament and machinery of the original or projected ship.
Armament
- Main battery
- 8 x 13,5 cm
- Secondary battery
- 8 x 3,7 cm
- Heavy anti-aircraft
- 8 x 2 cm
- Light anti-aircraft
- 8 x 53,3 cm torpedo tubes
- Torpedo tubes
- 70 mines
Performance
- Machinery and speed
- 110000 shp, 40 kn
Service record
Construction record
- Laid down
- O.T.O Livorno, 28.09.1939
- Launched
- 17.08.1941
- Fate
- scuttled 1944