Italy WWI RN Conte di Cavour Battleship Patriotic Medal in Silver 800 by Gerosa

Italy: WW1 Commemorative medal for the launch 
of the Battleship Conte di Cavour. 
With the motto: "Second to none". 
Silver, marked "800", signed by A. Gerosa. 
Conte di Cavour was the name ship of the three 
Conte di Cavour-class battleships built for the 
Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) in the 1910s. 
She served during both World War I and during 
the Corfu Incident in 1923. 
She was rebuilt between 1933 and 1937 with 
more powerful guns, additional armor and 
more powerful engines. 
During WW2, Conte di Cavour participated in 
the Battle of Calabria. 
She was torpedoed by British bombers at 
Taranto in 1940. Her repairs were not completed 
before the Italian surrender in 1943 and the ship 
was captured by the Germans only to be 
damaged and capsized in an Allied air raid in 
1945. 
A scarce medal.

FULL SIZE

World War 1 1914 -1918 

Item 100% original

Condition as on the photos
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