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Sparviero (Italian: "Sparrowhawk") was an Italian aircraft carrier designed and built during World War II of the Regia Marina.She was originally the ocean liner MS Augustus built in 1926 for Navigazione Generale Italiana, but was transferred to the new Italian Line after the merger of Navigazione Generale Italiana with the Lloyd Sabaudo and the Cosulich Line.
Seized in 1915 by Italy, renamed Sparviero before her launch in 1917, and completed as a scout cruiser. Purchased again by Romania in 1920, reclassified as a destroyer, and renamed Mărăști. Italian aircraft carrier Sparviero, previously the passenger liner MS Augustus.
Like her sister, the Augustus was converted into an aircraft carrier and renamed Falco and later Sparviero. Before work could be completed, the Kingdom of Italy signed an armistice in 1943, and both ships were shortly thereafter captured by the neoestablished National Republican Navy of the Italian Social Republic, a German puppet state.
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Italian aircraft carrier Aquila; S. Italian aircraft carrier Sparviero This page was last edited on 17 September 2016, at 02:45 (UTC). ...
Near the end of the war, the royalist Italian Co-belligerent Navy feared the Germans might use Aquila as a blockship to the entrance to Genoa harbor, just as they did with her sister ship, the converted aircraft carrier Sparviero (formerly the ocean liner Augustus) a few months prior.
Italian aircraft carrier Sparviero; Operation Sparviero, the Italian Army contribution to ISAF in Kabul, Afghanistan; Pasotti F.9 Sparviero, an Italian four seat low wing touring aircraft; Pro.Mecc Sparviero, an Italian ultralight aircraft; Savoia-Marchetti S.M.79 Sparviero, a three-engined Italian medium bomber; Sparviero class patrol boat