Padua-Class Light Cruiser

Class overview
Name:	Padua-Class Light Cruiser
Builders:	Royal Shipbuilders of Cacerta
Operators:	Cacertian Royal Navy
Preceded by:	Savina-Class
In commission:	1933 – 1945
Planned:	10
Completed:	10
Lost:	3
Retired:	6
Preserved:	1
General characteristics
Type:	Light cruiser
Displacement:	8,767 tons standard 9,885 tons fully loaded
Length:	180 meters
Beam:	19 meters
Draft:	7 meters
Propulsion:	4 × shafts 4 × CNRC geared turbines
Speed:	32.5 knots (60.2 km/h)
Range:	10,000 nautical miles at 15 knots
Complement:	868 officers and crew
Armament:	Guns: 15 × 130mm RN-QFIV guns (5 × 3) Dual purpose: 8 × 75mm RN-DPII guns (8 × 1) Anti-aircraft: 16 × MG50 machine guns (8 × 2) Other: 8 × 540mm torpedo tubes

The Padua-class was a class of light cruisers built for the Cacertian Royal Navy leading up to and during the Siduri War. The Padua-class were heavily armed for light cruisers and possessed a main battery of fifteen 130mm quick-firing guns capable of devastating damage to light class warships. They were also the final class of light cruisers built under the auspices of Andrea Doria’s post-Divide War new naval strategy.

A total of eight ships were initially planned. Three were immediately assigned to Task Force Andria to bolster the naval contingent there with the remaining five assigned to Task Force Center. Although all of the ships served extensively during the war, three were present during the Battle of the Sabri Sea of which the Trapini and the Cremona were sunk during the action.

The remaining ships served until they were decommissioned in 1945 and sold for scrap. The Padua is the only surviving example of the ship and is moored at the naval outpost at its namesake city.

Units

#	Designation	Name	Shipyard	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	Status	Commanding Officer
I	CL-P-001	Padua						N/A
II	CL-P-002	Raphae
III	CL-P-003	Durovernon
IV	CL-P-004	Amida
V	CL-P-005	Theveste
VI	CL-P-006	Ostium