Victory at Sea: Vittorio VenetoThe Littorio class was the first new Italian battleship class for nearly a decade when design work began in 1930. Initially designed to remain within the 35,000 ton Washington Treaty limit, the final displacement was just over 40,000 tons. As well as being good looking ships, the Littorio class included a number of new features including high velocity guns. They were probably the first of the fast battleships that would come to dominate capital ship