SS Roma (1926)
SS Roma | |
| History | |
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| Italy | |
| Name |
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| Owner |
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| Port of registry | Genoa, Italy |
| Builder | Ansaldo Shipyards, Genoa, Italy |
| Launched | 26 February 1926 |
| Completed | September 1926 |
| In service | 21 September 1926 |
| Fate | Sabotaged and partially sunk in 1945 by Italian Co-Belligerent Navy, raised and scrapped 1952 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type |
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| Tonnage | 32,583 GRT |
| Length | 215.25 m (706.2 ft) |
| Beam | 25.2 m (82.7 ft) |
| Draft | 9.2 m (30.2 ft) |
| Propulsion | 8 steam turbines geared 4 shafts, 4 screws |
| Speed | 20 knots |
SS Roma was an ocean liner built for the Italian shipping company Navigazione Generale Italiana of Genoa by Ansaldo shipyard in Sestri Ponente. She was the sister ship to MS Augustus. The ship was later transferred to the new Italian Line after the merger of Navigazione Generale Italiana. When the Second World War broke out, she was acquired by the Navy for Conversion to aircraft carrier name Aquila. She was taken over by the National Republican Navy of the Italian Social Republic and German occupation forces in 1943 but was partially sunk in 1945 by a commando attack of Mariassalto, an Italian royalist assault unit of the Co-Belligerent Navy of the Kingdom of Italy, made up by members of the former Decima Flottiglia MAS. Roma was raised and scrapped by 1952.