Italian corvette Flavio Gioia information

Flavio Gioia was a screw corvette of the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) built in the late 1870s and early 1880s. The design for Flavio Gioia was prepared...

naval engineer Carlo Vigna, who also designed the similar corvette Flavio Gioia. The Italian navy still largely relied on a fleet of old wooden-hulled...

in 1891. Carlo Vigna designed the first steel-hulled corvette of the Italian fleet, Flavio Gioia. She was converted into a training ship in 1892, a role...

of ensign (during the First World War he was embarked on the cruiser Flavio Gioia, used as a training ship). He was promoted to sub-lieutenant on 17 March...

corps. His first assignment was on the screw corvette Flavio Gioia. Over the next two years on board Flavio Gioia, Triangi voyaged to South America, touching...

with the old ironclads Castelfidardo and Affondatore and the screw corvettes Flavio Gioia and Caracciolo. During the annual fleet maneuvers in September and...