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RN Alberto di Guissano

The Alberto di Guissano class of light cruisers was designed to hunt large destroyers like the Mogador class of France. Built, completed and commissioned entirely before the Italian Civil War, Giussano sat in port for it. In 1932, despite being brand new, Caroni often mocked the vessel's extremely poor armor of only 24mm at it's thickest. He spoke endlessly about the uselessness of the vessels, and planned for them to be scrapped in 1939. Saved by mounting tensions with both Germany and Japan, the four Giussanos were placed in the Second Pacific Squadron due to their range (3,800 nmi) and fast speed of 37 knots, Giussano was able to make the trip from Mogadishu to Goa in only four days. She put to see four days after the bombing in Singapore had sank the Giuseppe Mazzini, and sailed alongside her four sisters, the two Abruzzis, the Montecuccolis, and battleship Conte di Cavour. She saw little fleet action, but in one of the few ship to ship engagements she did have, she struck and crippled Japanese captured vessel "Patrol Boat No. 101" (Formerly HMS Thracian, an S class destroyer). In the same engagement, her sister ship Giovanni della Bande Nere was torpedoed and sunk. In 1944, she and her sister ship Bartolomeo Colleoni were escorting aircraft carrier Fiume when the squadron was suddenly spotted by Japanese floatplanes at dusk. thirty minutes later, the vessels were attacked by Japanese bombers from Siam. a near miss rattled Giussano, and a direct hit caused Bartolomeo Colleoni to split in half and sink. Giussano was recalled to Italy in 1944 along with her only other sister Alberico da Barbiano, and the two ships were turned into AA cruisers. Their 6 inch guns were removed, and superstructures altered to fit 16 90mm heavy AA guns. The two vessels were anchored in La Spezia to defend it, however once La Spezia fell they would relocate to Taranto. There, the ships sat until the end of the war. Giussano was sold to Spain, and Barbiano was scrapped in 1954.