Scarano-Class Cruiser

Class overview
Name:	Scarano-class cruiser
Builders:	Royal Shipbuilders of Cacerta
Operators:	Cacertian Royal Navy
Preceded by:	Romana-class
Succeeded by:	Molfetta-class
In commission:	1933 – 1951
Planned:	8
Completed:	8
Retired:	8
Preserved:	1
General characteristics
Type:	Cruiser
Displacement:	15,530 tons standard 18,711 tons fully loaded
Length:	197 meters
Beam:	23 meters
Draft:	7.3 meters
Propulsion:	4 × CNRC geared steam turbines 4 × CNRC three-drum boilers 4 × shafts each driving four-bladed propellers
Speed:	33.5 knots (62 km/h)
Range:	8,000 nautical miles at 20 knots
Complement:	1,090 officers and crew
Armament:	Guns: 10 × 180mm RN-EQF guns (5 × 2) Dual-purpose: 16 × 75mm RN-DPII guns (8 × 2) Other: 16 × 540mm torpedo tubes (4 × 4)

The Scarano-class was a class of experimental cruisers built for the Cacertian Royal Navy as a combat platform for the then-prototype RN-EQF naval gun. Construction began on the first ship of the class in the late 1920s but delays in the development of her primary armament meant that the HMS Scarano didn’t put to sea until 1933, a year after the first Molfetta-class—the Scaranos technical successor—began sea trials.

Despite initial problems with the autoloading mechanisms on the EQF guns, the Scarano developed a reputation as a formidably aggressive warship during the Siduri War. The sixteen to twenty round per minute rate of fire of her primary armament greatly outclassed their RN-QF predecessors. Their complicated manufacture and expense, however, meant that they never fully superseded the RN-QF series.

A total of eight Scarano-class cruisers would ultimately be put to sea with the first four being completed prior the outbreak of hostilities and the remaining four completed during the war.

Units

#	Designation	Name	Shipyard	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	Status	Commanding Officer
I	C-Sc-001	Scarano
II	C-Sc-002	Egamos
III	C-Sc-003	Sacuse
IV	C-Sc-004	Raveli
V	C-Sc-005	Crodena
VI	C-Sc-006	Risbon
VII	C-Sc-007	Amassa
VIII	C-Sc-008	Macerosa