[WIP] Italian Trento class heavy cruiser

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Originally Posted by VonDos

Hi everyone!
I've seen somo photo\postcards with Trento class cruisers; on some of them (very rare), on ship's bow there is a seaplane. In some others there isn't planes. Do you know if there was a seaplane on Trento during ww2? Should i add it?

Bolzano had their planes used actively during his WW2 career.
I do not know about Trento and Trieste but I assume that they've used their scouts as well.
Trento class had hangar which could hold two planes. Third could be carried on catapult. Will third plane be carried it depend of nature of mission since front guns could not fire strait ahead while planes were on catapult without damage to plane. So, mostly it carried two planes. That is why on some pictures you can see plane ready on catapult and on some pictures there are no planes.
I hope this clarifies thing a bit.

BTW, are you planing to create Bolzano as it was historicly?
He was more class of his own. Actually it was predecessor of Zara's and he was much more similar to Zara's then Trento's.
He had hull much more similar as Zara's (bridge was different then Zara's).
http://warshipsww2.eu/lode.php?langu...d=&idtrida=167

PS: VonDOs, could you clarify for me meaning of a terms Navi di battaglia and corazzata???
I've been searching on net Italian word for Battleship and I've found that sometimes it is used term Navi di battaglia and sometimes corazzata.
What is difference between these terms and which is right for "Battleship"?

[kovall]

Hi everyone!
I've seen somo photo\postcards with Trento class cruisers; on some of them (very rare), on ship's bow there is a seaplane. In some others there isn't planes. Do you know if there was a seaplane on Trento during ww2? Should i add it?

«Trento» and «Trieste» became the first Italian ships, which at the design stage provided aircraft weapon, and location for the catapult was elected to the forecastle, which is under the deck forward of the first gun turret was a hangar for two seaplanes - they submitted to the catapult using the elevator.

[VonDos]

Thanks a lot!

So, there where a couple of hidden seaplanes, and rarely a third one on the bow catapult. Mmm if majority of time was spended by those ships without the third plane, i'm thinking to not implement this.

@mad Really good question, i've difficult to reply.
I think Nave da battaglia (nave=ship; battaglia=battle -> battle-ship) should refer to wood and iron also old capital warships (like french Napoleon), while corazzata should (i think) refer to iron, heavy protected battleship).
Btw, on my dictionary, they refer both to "battleship" convenctional term; they're used for same object; so they're the same.