List of ships named Aquila

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Several warships of Italian navies were given the name Aquila .

origin

Aquila stands for real eagles , a genus of birds of prey .

Name bearer

  • Aquila (16th century), a naval galleon of the Venetian Navy that took part in the 1571 naval battle of Lepanto
  • Aquila Volante (1697) , a Venetian ship of the line (70 cannons)
  • Aquila (Valiera) (1698) , a ship of the line (64 cannons) of the Navy of the Republic of Venice
  • Aquila (1794) , a Venetian corvette (32 cannons)
  • Aquila (1795) , a navy galley of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
  • Aquila (1804) , a half-galley in service in Sardinia of the Navy of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont
  • Aquila (1824) , a brigantine in the Navy of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
  • Aquila (1838) , a corvette the Navy of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont, the 1861 transfer to the Italian Regia Marina in Iride was renamed
  • Aquila (1854) , an advice from the Navy of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the Regia Marina
  • Aquila (1916) , type ship of a destroyer class built for Romania , the four units of which remained in Italian service due to the war and of which two were sold to Romania in 1920 and the other two to Spain in 1937; Aquila went out of service in 1950 as the Spanish Melilla
  • Aquila (1943) , an unfinished Italian aircraft carrier, see Roma (ship, 1926)
  • Aquila (F 542) , a corvette of the Albatros class, which from 1961 to 1992 in the service of the Italian Navy was

See also