Cornelio Silla

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. Cornelio Silla was captured in Genoa, in its initial phase of fitting out. The ship was never completed and sunk during an air raid in July 1944.