Kagero Publishing The Battleship Roma 16040

• Superdrawings in 3D No 40
• Carlo Cestra
• The Battleship Roma 1942–1943
• 100 pages
• 177 renders

Battleship Roma was one of the three Italian Littorio-class battleships operating during the Second World War. She was one of the most modern and powerful battleships of her time. The construction of Roma and her sister Impero, the fourth battleship never finished, was planned to strengthen the Italian Navy, which, until then, had only two modern battleships and some old WWI battleships.
Battleship Roma was laid down by the Italian shipbuilder “Cantieri Riuniti dell’Adriatico”, in Trieste, on 18 September 1938, almost four years after the first two battleships (Vittorio Veneto and Littorio) of her class. She was launched on 9 June 1940, the day before Italy entered the war, and was commissioned into “Regia Marina” (the Italian Navy) on 14 June 1942. Based on experience of the first two ships, some small improvements were made to her, including additional freeboard to the bow.