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Thursday, 25 October 2018

I have been to ... La Spezia Naval Museum: The open-air displays

The final section of the museum we visited were the open-air displays.


These included:

An example of a Cannone da 100/47



A memorial to the crews and submarines of Royal Italian Navy


An example of a 305mm (12-inch) Menon anti-submarine mortar


The Menon anti-submarine mortar was a single barrelled 305mm (12-inch) mortar with automatic loading. It was fitted with a a 7-round magazine and had a range of 400m to 900m (440 yards to 980 yards.

A statue of Constanzo Ciano


Costanzo Ciano commanded a MAS unit during the First World War and won a Gold Medal for Military Valour for leading an attack attack on Austrian shipping in the harbour at Buccari (now Bakar) in Istria, Croatia.

One of the propellers from the Littorio-class battleship Vittorio Veneto

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