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RN Giuseppe Mazzini

Giuseppe Mazzini was designed to fill in the gaps for Italian heavy cruiser construction under Plan Marina. In 1932, she was finished alongside the destroyer Sporo in 1932. She was assigned to the Second Pacific Flotilla in 1937, and spent the leadup to the war in port in British Singapore. She was critically damaged by Japanese bombers in 1940, resulting in Italian entry into World War II in the Pacific.