Italian ship Cristoforo Colombo

Four ships of the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy) have been named Cristoforo Colombo, after the Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus:

Italian corvette Cristoforo Colombo (1875), a wooden-hulled ship built in the 1870s
Italian corvette Cristoforo Colombo (1892), a steel-hulled ship built to replace the original vessel
Italian battleship Cristoforo Colombo, a Francesco Caracciolo-class battleship cancelled in 1916
Italian training ship Cristoforo Colombo, a sail training ship launched in 1928, she was ceded to the Soviet Union in 1949 and given the name Dunay

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