705320 1/350 Italian Navy Battleship RN Vittorio Veneto 1940

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Scale: 1/350
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The largest and mostpowerful warships ever built in Italy, the battleships of the Littorio class, were the first 35,000 ton nersto come under the provision s of the Washington Treaty. Although the Washington Navel Con ference of 1922 gave Italy the authority to build up to182,800 tons of new capital ships (including 70,000 tons prior to 1932), the Italians waited more than a decade before beginning construction . The RN Vittorio Veneto was commission ed 1 May1940. Her first mission of World War II came 31 August 1940 as part of the con centration of the Italian battleships to put to sea during the war. She participated in a mission to challenge the British MediterraneanFleet based at Alexand ria, Egypt. The RN VittorioVeneto was inactive until November 1940. The last combat mission was the Con voy Battle in June 1942. The ship was sent to Genoafor repairs where it remained and was later returned to LaSpezia. There she was toremain until the Italian surrender in September 1943. She was decommission ed on 3 January 1948. The Paris Peace Treaty ceded the ship to Great Britain; the British government permitted the Italians to scrap her. This was don ein La Spezia during1948-1950.