[IJN] lmperial_Japanese_Navy Players 240 posts 5,613 battles Report post #1 Posted October 11, 2019 The plans of strengthening the Siamese (Thailand) naval fleet leading to the ordering of two light cruiser.With the cost of 1,207,720 pound and another 278,400 pound for the armaments Italy was chosen to be the one to building both ships.Already recieved the names by the Thais for both ships, one would be Taksin and second would be Naresuan.The Naresuan was first launched in August 6, 1941 and Taksin launched in May 28, 1942 but both of them never arrived to Thailand. Sometime later Italy paid back the compensation of the two light cruisers to Thailand in the amount of £ 601,360. ''Ship project history: Small cruisers, have received names Taksin and Naresuan were ordered by Thailand in Italy in 1938. Under an original design, they should have 5500t standard displacement, 30kts speed and armament consisted of 3 twin 152mm guns, 6 single 76mm AA guns, 4 twin 13.2mm MGs, 2 triple 533mm TTs and catapults for seaplanes. Interesting feature of these ships was that despite only one funnel, machinery had en echelon arrangement (from a bow aftward there were No1 and 2 boiler rooms, No1 engine room, No3 boiler room and No2 engine room). The kiel laying of cruisers has happened in the end of 1939, and in December, 1941 works were suspended, 6/8/1942 Italian Government confiscated both ships. Taksin and Naresuan were renamed Etna and Vesuvio respectively. The project was redesigned to AA cruiser. All armaments were replaced by new, thus catapult and TTs were removed. Besides providing of air defence of escorts, on the new ships it was supposed to assign additional functions of fast cargo vessels. For this purpose 400m3 holds were provided. By September, 1943 the ships were in 60-65% readiness. 10/9/1943 they were captured by Germans at Trieste, and in 1944 scuttled on shallow water in 1944, raised next year and BU in 1948.'' Historical photos of the hull. Spoiler 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kingpin6100 Players 19 posts 23,772 battles Report post #2 Posted January 30, 2020 these are some excellent photos considering most of the information on these ships references their second lives as Italian AA cruisers. Do you have any more detailed information like an armor model cross section or a blueprint of any sort? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[IJN] lmperial_Japanese_Navy Players 240 posts 5,613 battles Report post #3 Posted January 13, 2021 On 1/30/2020 at 2:54 PM, Kingpin6100 said: these are some excellent photos considering most of the information on these ships references their second lives as Italian AA cruisers. Do you have any more detailed information like an armor model cross section or a blueprint of any sort? Hi there, sorry for late reply since i barely spend my time on this forum. It has been a very long time since i last made my research on this cruiser so i lost the sources where i got these from. I do believe there should be document on further details on this ship, personally i don't have it. But if WG is interested in making the Thai variant for pan-Asia and AA variant for Italian tech trees i think it would not be difficult for them to find it.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kingpin6100 Players 19 posts 23,772 battles Report post #4 Posted January 22, 2021 On 1/13/2021 at 12:35 PM, BooMKani_Sensei said: Hi there, sorry for late reply since i barely spend my time on this forum. It has been a very long time since i last made my research on this cruiser so i lost the sources where i got these from. I do believe there should be document on further details on this ship, personally i don't have it. But if WG is interested in making the Thai variant for pan-Asia and AA variant for Italian tech trees i think it would not be difficult for them to find it.... I ended up finding the source of the model :) But thank you for the response Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
[IJN] lmperial_Japanese_Navy Players 240 posts 5,613 battles Report post #5 Posted February 22, 2021 On 1/22/2021 at 6:43 PM, Kingpin6100 said: I ended up finding the source of the model :) But thank you for the response Congrats! In WT they are already adding the anti-air cruiser Etna-Class, the redesigned version for the Italian Navy. I found it very interesting that this ship finally made into a game. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
