Ships · Italy · 1931-1941
Zara-class cruiser
heavy cruiser
Well-armoured Italian heavy cruisers, three of the class - Zara, Fiume and Pola - were caught by British radar-directed battleships at close range in the night action off Cape Matapan and destroyed in about five minutes, with the loss of over 2,300 Italian sailors.
| displacement | 11,680 tonnes (standard), 14,300 full load |
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| armament | 8x 203mm main guns |
| crew | approx. 841 |
| produced | 4 built |
Mediterranean and North Africa
