Buy the battleship ROMA italy on newsstands.

[Xilon_x]

if you want the great book to story of ROMA buy it + extra MODEL.
http://www.hachette-fascicoli.it/opere-minisito-abbonati/naveroma.htm?cmp=11GOOGLE_ROMA

this is ROMA.
http://digilander.libero.it/en_mezzi_militari/html/corazzate/BB-Littorio-Roma1.png
http://digilander.libero.it/en_mezzi_militari/html/corazzate/BB-Littorio-Roma-1942Camo.png

[JG52Uther]

Interesting,sunk by Dornier 217's with Fritz-X bombs!

battleship Roma.
Italian battleship Roma (1940) starboard bow view.jpg
Career (Italy)
Name: Roma
Namesake: Rome
Operator: Regia Marina
Ordered: 1937[1]
Builder: Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico[2]
Yard number: 1223[3]
Laid down: 18 September 1938[4][N 1]
Launched: 9 June 1940[3][4]
Commissioned: 14 June 1942[3][4]
In service: 21 August 1942[5]
Fate: Sunk 9 September 1943[4]
General characteristics
Displacement: 37,820 long tons (38,430 t; 42,360 ST) light[5]
40,723 long tons (41,376 t; 45,610 ST) standard[5]
43,797 long tons (44,500 t; 49,053 ST) normal[5]
45,773 long tons (46,508 t; 51,266 ST) full load[5]
Length: 787.728 ft (240.099 m) oa[6]
734.070 ft (223.745 m) pp[6]
Beam: 108.104 ft (32.950 m) maximum beam[6]
106.408 ft (32.433 m) waterline beam[6]
Draft: 34.252 ft (10.440 m) @ 45,473 long tons (46,203 t; 50,930 ST)[6]
Propulsion: 8 Yarrow boilers, 4 shafts, 138,035 shaft horsepower[7]
Speed: 30 knots (35 mph; 56 km/h)[7]
Range: 3,920 nautical miles (7,260 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h)[7]
Complement: 1,920[7]
Armament: 3 × 3 381 mm (15.0 in)/50 caliber Model 1934 guns[8]
4 × 3 152 mm (6.0 in)/55 Model 1934 guns[8]
12 × 2 90 mm (3.5 in)/50 anti-aircraft guns[8]
20 × 2 37 mm (1.5 in)/50 guns[8]
32 × 20 mm (0.79 in)/65 guns[8]
6 × 1 8 mm (0.31 in) guns[8]
Aircraft carried: 3 aircraft (IMAM Ro.43 or Reggiane Re.2000)

Roma, named after two previous ships and the city of Rome, was the fourth Vittorio Veneto-class battleship of Italy's Regia Marina (English: Royal Navy). The construction of both Roma and her sister ship Impero was planned due to rising tensions around the world and the navy's fear that two Vittorio Venetos and the older pre-First World War battleships were not enough to counter the British and French Mediterranean Fleets. As Roma was laid down almost four years after the first two ships of the class, some small improvements were made to the design, including additional freeboard added to the bow.

Roma was commissioned into the Regia Marina on 14 June 1942, but a severe fuel shortage in Italy at that time prevented her from being deployed; instead, along with her sister ships Vittorio Veneto and Littorio, she was used to bolster the anti-aircraft defenses of various Italian cities. In this role, she was severely damaged twice in June 1943 from bomber raids on La Spezia. After repairs in Genoa through all of July and part of August, Roma was deployed as the flagship of Admiral Carlo Bergamini in a large battle group that eventually comprised the three Vittorio Venetos, eight cruisers and eight destroyers. Their stated intent was attacking the Allied ships approaching Salerno to invade Italy (Operation "Avalanche") but, in reality, the Italian fleet was sailing to Malta to surrender following Italy's September 8, 1943 armistice with the Allies.

While the force was in the Strait of Bonifacio, Dornier Do 217s of the German Luftwaffe—armed with Fritz X radio-controlled bombs—sighted the force. The first attack failed, but the second dealt Italia (ex-Littorio) and Roma much damage. The hit on Roma caused water to flood two boiler rooms and the after engine room, leaving the ship to limp along with two propellers, reduced power, and arc-induced fires in the stern of the ship. Shortly thereafter, another bomb slammed into the ship which detonated within the forward engine room, causing catastrophic flooding and the explosion of the #2 main turret's magazines, throwing the turret itself into the sea. Sinking by the bow and leaning to starboard, Roma capsized and broke in two, carrying 1253 men—including Bergamini—down with her.

In her 15-month service life, Roma made 20 sorties, mostly in transfers between bases (none were to go into combat), covering 2,492 mi (4,010 km) and using 3,320 tonnes (3,270 LT; 3,660 ST) of fuel oil in 133 hours of sailing.

[Fenice_1965]

I already made a mission for that wich is playing on SOV server :) (a little of fantasy since I put there an opposition by Regia aereonautica to German bombers wich wasn't there. It seems that only two mc 202 took of and went to the opposite side of Sardinia. The three Reggiane 2000 - also interesting for 4.10 - aboard the ships weren't used).
Now I'm rebuilding it with HE 111 and Fritx X bombs and stock 4.10 pity we do not have do 217 and catapults.
Really an interesting event.
~S~

[Xilon_x]

yes most peoples cry cry and cry to famous battle ship ROMA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0qxo5Oc6ts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivJQMrpmdac&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBYQXfPZun0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDpmiQOZRnE&feature=related

[Xilon_x]

This is the CAPTAIN of R.N. ROMA
C. ADONE DEL CIMA
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRETcCIj4BliJQH5IZ5W5WZIO5OjYaN7 sFvAiqzB6ReztxO-L5V
http://www.menorcamica.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Adone-Del-Cima-disperso.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2PJhzuDAP9k/TPdSaCn0LfI/AAAAAAAAB4o/N47zV_z7RoI/s320/del_Cima.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2PJhzuDAP9k/TIK-68LdJoI/AAAAAAAABr4/x6pTRk3TBQo/s320/de+vecchi.jpg

[Flying Pencil]

First (and only?) battleship sunk by a radio guided weapon?

I think this pretty much stopped all construction of BB's around the world (on top of fact their was a lot of them in service).

[Xilon_x]

RECOSTRUCTION 3D BATTLE SHIP ROMA for the official movie "Inferno di Fuoco" ("Hell of Fire") to history chanel.
http://www.cestrum.eu/images/modelli%203d/rn_roma_02.jpg
http://www.cestrum.eu/images/modelli%203d/rn_roma_02_W.jpg
http://www.cestrum.eu/images/modelli%203d/rn_roma_03.jpg
http://www.cestrum.eu/images/modelli%203d/rn_roma_03_W.jpg
http://www.cestrum.eu/images/modelli%203d/rn_roma_01.jpg
http://www.cestrum.eu/images/modelli%203d/rn_roma_01_W.jpg
http://www.cestrum.eu/images/modelli%203d/rn_italia_02.jpg
http://www.cestrum.eu/images/modelli%203d/rn_italia_02_W.jpg

[Xilon_x]

this is another type of reconstruction 3D BATTLE SHIP ROMA
http://www.serafimov.com/public/general/roma27A.jpg
http://www.serafimov.com/public/general/roma27B.jpg
http://www.serafimov.com/public/general/roma27C.jpg
http://www.serafimov.com/public/general/roma31.jpg
http://www.serafimov.com/public/general/roma33.jpg
http://www.serafimov.com/public/general/roma35.jpg
http://www.serafimov.com/public/general/roma36.jpg
http://www.serafimov.com/public/general/roma39.jpg
http://www.serafimov.com/public/general/roma41.jpg

[Xilon_x]

Loock this movie to you tube
cap1.
cap2.
cap3.
cap4.
cap5.
cap6.
cap7.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3zykn6ESNk

[baronWastelan]

Was it General George S. Patton who said "fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity"? Same could be said of any battleship commissioned after Billy Mitchell's experiment of sinking ships with bombers.

[Tbag]

I met the guy who flew one of the Dorniers a couple of years back in the aircraft museum Hannover. He had a copy of the certificate in his wallet that confirmed that he had sunk the Roma. He said that during training they would regularly hit 5x5m squares on the ground with the Fritz-X. After the war he never flew as a pilot again. It was a very memorable experience to meet that guy!

[Xilon_x]

I can imagine ....... this pilot will be 'left completely shocked after having sunk more' big giant of the Italian navy in the center made the room even hitting ammunition and causing an explosion so strong as to blow up the second tower gunboat that weighed a lot you tons ... .... like the cap of a bottle ..... and a gait so strong as to cause the death of 1352 men on an entire crew of 1948.


say that this pilot is definitely not 'back more' to fly, and why that experience was definitely a great experience.

in Italy it is said that ROMA was unsinkable.
amiraglio CARLO BERGAMINI
http://www.golfotv.info/home/images/stories/cultura/bergamini-web.jpg

[Xilon_x]

This is the leader of team german pilots attak BATTLE SHIP ROMA
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2PJhzuDAP9k/TOhG7FeGpwI/AAAAAAAABzs/2kSYiT380Y0/s320/Bernhard+Jope.jpg
Oberstleutnant Bernhard Jope: (1914-1995) comandante della squadriglia di Do-217.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/ff/Bernhard_Jope.jpg/220px-Bernhard_Jope.jpg

BIOGRAPHY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Jope

[Kittle]

Wow Tbag, that must have been a great experience. I was at the Great State of Maine airshow a couple years ago and was pawing over the B-25 'Panchito' that was part of the display. There was an older man there and he identified himself as a pilot, but then he says "I didn't fly these though, oh no, I was a B-26 pilot" and I say "The Marauder?" and he says "Yes, now that was a real combat airplane!" Granted, the airplane that brings you home is the airplane that you are going to love, but to see the confidence, the bravado in this man of 80+ years, I felt lucky to be in his presense!