Roma

Type:
Battleship
Class:
Builder:
Cantieri Riuniti dell' Adratico
Trieste, Italy
Pennant Number:
N/A
Ordered:
N/A
Commissioned:
June 14, 1942
Keel Laid:
September 18, 1938
Decommissioned:
N/A
Launched:
September 6, 1940
Fate:
Sunk Sept. 9, 1943 by two SD-1400 (Fritz-X) radio controlled glider bombs fired from a Do-217
from III Gruppe KG-100.

Location: Mediterranean Sea, Gulf of Asinara, 26 miles NW of Port Torres, Sardinia.
(41.10N - 08.40E)

Between 1,250 and 1,350 crewmen killed, 596 survivors picked up by escorting ships.


Builder's Data
Page published Oct. 20, 2008