Anastasia Alberti-Class Battlecruiser

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Class overview
Name: Anastasia Alberti-class battlecruiser
Builders: Royal Shipbuilders of Cacerta
Operators: CRNEnsign.png Cacertian Royal Navy
Preceded by: Dino Calvini-class
Succeeded by: Lucrezia Quintilian-class
In commission: 1921 – 1943
Planned: 3
Completed: 3
Lost: 1
Retired: 2
General characteristics
Type: Battlecruiser
Displacement:
  • 16,170 tons standard
  • 18,200 tons fully loaded
Length: 202.8 meters
Beam: 21.3 meters
Draft: 7.2 meters
Propulsion:
  • 3 × CNRC geared turbines
  • 8 × Caustus water-tube boilers
  • 3 × shafts each driving four-bladed propellers
Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h)
Range: 6,800 nautical miles at 20 knots
Complement: 1,382 officers and crew
Armament:
  • Guns:
  • 8 × 200mm RN-BCII guns (4 × 2)
  • Dual-purpose:
  • 12 × 105mm RN-DPII guns (6 × 2)
  • Anti-aircraft:
  • 12 × 40mm RN-AAIII guns (12 × 1)
  • 8 × 16mm RN-AAII guns (8 × 1)
  • Other:
  • 12 × 55cm torpedo tubes (4 × 3)

The Anastasia Alberti-class was a group of thee battlecruisers built by the Royal Shipbuilders of Cacerta for the Cacertian Royal Navy as part of the ongoing Cruiser Race between the Cacertian Empire and the Republic of Syara. The class consisted of the HMS Anastasi Alberti, HMS Zanita Testo, and HMS Anatolia Celluci. Versatile designs, all three ships served extensively in the Siduri War serving a variety of roles from battleship and carrier escorts to fleet interceptors and commercie raiders.