Andrea Doria was the lead ship of her class of battleships built by the Regia Marina. The class included only one sister ship, Duilio. Andrea Doria was named after the 16th-century Genoese admiral of
Andrea Doria after her 1937–1940 reconstruction.
Andrea Doria sailing to Malta for internment, September 9, 1943.
Italian Regency of Carnaro
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The Italian Regency of Carnaro was a self-proclaimed state in the city of Fiume led by Gabriele d'Annunzio between 1919 and 1920.
Italian battleship Andrea Doria
…Andrea Doria saw no major action in World War I, and served extensively in Mediterranean in the 1920s and 1930s. She was involved in the suppression of rebels in Fiume and the Corfu incident in the 1920s. Starting in 1937, Andrea Doria underwent an extensive modernization, which lasted until 1940. She saw relatively…
Gabriele d'Annunzio (centre; with the cane) and some "legionaries" – in this case former members of the Arditi (shock troops) corps of the Italian Army, at Fiume in 1919. To the right of D'Annunzio, facing him, is Lieutenant Arturo Avolio (commander of a famed World War I Arditi platoon).