Italian aircraft carrier Aquila

Aquila was an Italian aircraft carrier that was never finished, converted from the transatlantic passenger liner Roma. The Regia Marina began the work at the Ansaldo shipyard in Genoa in late 1941 and carried it on for about two years. The liner's interior was gutted to make room for a hangar deck and workshops, deep bulges were added to the hull for stability and a modest degree of torpedo protection, and the hull was lengthened to suit new machinery. That machinery, eight boilers driving four turbine groups, was taken from two cancelled Capitani Romani class light cruisers. The ship was renamed Aquila, Italian for eagle, because a battleship called Roma was already under construction. All work stopped with the Italian armistice of 8 September 1943. The unfinished hull was taken over by the National Republican Navy and German forces, partially sunk by an Italian commando attack in April 1945, then refloated and scrapped by 1952.