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RN Valerio Constantino

Valerio Constantino, named for Roman Emperor Flavius Valerius Constantinus, was the third Cesare Borgia class battleship. After her launch, she was to be converted into an aircraft carrier, becoming Italy's first proper fleet carrier in 1939. She was forty meters longer than her French contemporary, the aircraft carrier Bearn. She became flagship of the Italian fleet as soon as she was commissioned, and participated in grueling battles against the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1940 and 1941. She was designated as a prime target, as the Japanese believed if she sank, so to would Italy's plans of retaliation for Singapore. Constantino had a complement of 31 of Italy's modern aircraft, and during the First Battle off Siam, despite the incompetence shown, Constantino sank Japanese light cruiser Tama with torpedoes. Constantino was escorted by the entire fleet, and almost no Japanese aircraft got through their AA screens. Constantino was one of the few ships that was not to return to Italy when the German invasion began, instead remaining in the Pacific to put her aircraft to use. Her planes bombed Japanese airfields in the Philippines, and eventually her fighters would attempt to aid the US Army Air Force in gaining superiority. Eventually she was damaged for the first and only time in her career by torpedo bombers. Despite being a converted battleship, she kept the speed and armor of her class, and her armor belt took the brunt of the damage. Constantino returned to Goa in 1947, and went back out to sea in 1950, where the seasoned Italian fleet destroyed the Dutch Navy's capabilities in the Pacific after Italy intervened in the Indonesian National Revolution. Docking in Jakarta after the Dutch backed off finally in 1954, Constantino carried Ottavio Caroni from Rome to Jakarta to sign a pact of military assistance with the new Indonesian government. Constantino was put in the reserve fleet in 1962, and was turned into a museum ship in 1978.