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RN Torino

The Torino class was designed in 1920 as both Italy's first heavy cruisers, and Italy's first Washington Naval Treaty restricted ships. Ordered by Benito Mussolini in 1921 for construction, five ships were built. They lead quiet careers, except for the ships shelling the Greek Island of Corfu in 1923 during the Corfu Incident. In 1932 after the December Plot, Caroni began ordering extensive naval programs, and officially abandoning the London Naval Treaty. Torino's AA complement was revised, and her refit was finished in 1935, and she sailed to Italian Goa after the purchase from Portugal a month earlier. In 1938, a fire broke out in the stern boiler rooms, and Torino's damage control fought the fire for hours into the night. This fire was discovered to be caused by a mutiny below deck. Caroni ordered the perpetrators lynched, and Torino to head for repairs in Italy. She returned to the Pacific in 1940, sailing to Singapore days before the bombing. Torino was rattled by a single 500 pound bomb, which missed her and exploded under her. Torino listed to port 4 degrees as a hole was blown in her stern below the water. A second bomb dropped on her went through three decks but didn't explode. Aboard Torino, the damage control teams were able to successfully shut her watertight compartments and save the vessel. Despite this, her propulsion was destroyed, having one propeller shaft bent from the blast, and her rudder destroyed. Torino sat in Goa for 3 months until several tugboats managed to tow the wounded vessel to Mogadishu. She was given emergency repairs, and managed to sail under her own power to La Spezia, where she would be repaired fully. She reentered service in July 1941, and served within the Italian Pacific Fleet. She served with ABDAICOM forces in the Dutch East Indies, successfully torpedoing and sinking Japanese merchant vessels in night raids, which she was assigned due to her high speed of 33 knots, slim profile and quick turn rate. During the battle of Midway, Torino was nearly struck by torpedoes from Japanese submarines in the latter stages of action. Torino's luck ran out in 1944, when Japanese submarine I-401 hit her with two torpedoes off Malaya, Torino sank quickly, only taking 17 minutes to sink, with the loss of 237 of her crew.