Posted on 04/07/2021 6:45:35 AM PDT by Onthebrink
Roma was the third Littorio-class battleship, and by all accounts, she was graceful in appearance – a testament to Italian designs – unlike the blocky designs of British or German battleships. She was well-armored, fast-moving, and quite capably armed. Built with a compartmented hull and an ingenious system of bulkheads and expansion cylinders the Roma was in theory as fortified as her namesake – where Rome’s mighty walls fended off attackers for centuries.
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Thanks for the alert, Hummy. I wasn’t going to click on it until I your post. It was a good read and well worth the time and effort.
Almost as obnoxious as A+humble. Many people didn't like him. I got along with bert - but humble is asshoe.
Boo friggin’ hoo. You have to go to the website to see the ads associated with the article, too.
It’s amazing and powerful that four words can make so many people cry.
No, those things worked very well despite what by today’s standards would be primitive technology.
One of the few nazi “wonder weapons” that wasn’t a loony waste of resources.
The blast tore a large hole in the ship’s bottom, opened a seam in her side, and blew out all fires in her boiler rooms.”
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