Italian ship Lepanto

Last updated September 16, 2021

Lepanto has been borne by at least two ships of the Italian Navy and may refer to:

Italian ironclad Lepanto, an Italia-class battleship launched in 1883 and scrapped in 1915.
Italian minelayer Lepanto, an Azio-class minelayer launched in 1927. She was scuttled in 1943 but later raised and commissioned by Japan as Okitsu. In 1945 she was surrendered to the Republic of China who named her Hsien Ning. She was decommissioned in 1956.

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Lepanto was an Azio-class minelayer of the Italian Navy. She was reclassified as gunboat in 1934 and remained in Italian service in the far east from 1933 to 1943, when she was scuttled in China, during World War II. She was then recovered by the Imperial Japanese Navy and taken into service as Okitsu, spending the remainder of the war escorting convoys. She was surrendered to the Republic of China after the end of the war and served for a further ten years with its navy as the Hsien Ning.

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