Andrea Doria

Andrea Doria was the lead ship of I-Country Andrea Doria class battleships. Launched in 1914 and completed in 1916, she served in World War I but did not see any action, as its opponent - the Austro-Hungarian battle fleet - never left its ports. In 1920 she participated in the "Bloody Christmas", the suppression of the Regency of Carnaro, created by rebels led by the poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, who had seized the town of Fiume (on the border between Italy and Jugoslavia). Her shells seriously damaged, in this instance, the rebel destroyer Espero. She served extensively in the Mediterranean du...