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RN Zara

The Zara class was designed in 1929 as Italy's most modern heavy cruiser in the middle Interwar. Built, completed and commissioned entirely in the Mussolini era, the Zaras were 17 meters shorter than the preceding Trento class due to the compacting of her machinery. In the Caronist era, Zara and her two sisters Gorizia and Fiume were rebuilt to Pola's standards in 1933, getting the command bridge modification made to Pola. Fiume would later be converted into an aircraft carrier beginning in 1936. Zara would steam between Mogadishu and Goa regularly in the leadup to the war, even at one point transporting Ottavio himself to Goa for Fleet Review in 1938. Zara was targeted by the IJAF during the bombing of Singapore, but the two bombs meant for her missed and hit the aircraft hangar nearby on land. Zara regularly sailed with the remaining Giuseppe Mazzini class, the two Torino class heavy cruisers, Valerio Constantino and Cesare Borgia as the First Pacific Squadron. Zara's gunnery was potent, and accurate. With crackshot gunnery crews, Zara had won the Croce de Leone for accuracy three times in the leadup to the war, making her a priority target in the eyes of the IJN. In the Battle of Guadalcanal, Zara assisted US landings with her four twin 8 inch guns until her ammunition was expended. In 1943, all of her Minizini mounts were removed, and replaced with the 37mm AA gun, Caroni's favorite. During the First Battle off Siam in 1944, Zara landed multiple hits on Japanese cruiser Ashigara, when the two vessels closed to near secondary range during the chaos of the final phase of the battle. The shots fired jammed Ashigara's rudder, and knocked out her C turret. Zara also hit and sank Japanese destroyer escort Amukusa with three hits, one causing her torpedo tubes to detonate. Zara returned to Italy in 1944 when the Wehrmacht began the Invasion of Italy. Zara was torpedoed by German aircraft at night in March 1945, and was beached in Sardinia, being scrapped in 1949.