Italian cruiser Andrea Doria

For other ships with the same name, see Italian ship Andrea Doria.

Andrea Doria (C 553) was an Andrea Doria-class helicopter cruiser of the Marina Militare. Built by the Cantieri del Tirreno at Riva Trigoso (Liguria), it was named after the Genoese Renaissance admiral Andrea Doria.

Andrea Doria while launching a Terrier SAM in Sardinia in 1985, seen from the frigate Grecale.
History
Italy
Name	Andrea Doria
Namesake	Andrea Doria
Builder	Cantieri del Tirreno, Riva Trigoso
Laid down	11 May 1958
Launched	27 February 1963
Commissioned	23 February 1964
Decommissioned	30 September 1992[1]
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class & type	Andrea Doria-class cruiser
Displacement	6,500 long tons (6,604 t)
Length	149.2 m (489 ft 6 in)
Beam	17.2 m (56 ft 5 in)
Draught	5 m (16 ft 5 in)
Propulsion	Steam turbines, 4 boilers, 2 shafts, 60,000 shp (45 MW)
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range	3,500 nmi (6,500 km)
Complement	485
Armament	1 × Terrier SAM (40 missiles) 8 × 76 mm AA guns 6 × 12.75 in (324 mm) torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried	4 helicopters

History

Laid down in 1958, the ship was launched in 1962, and commissioned in 1964.^[2]

Initially based at La Spezia, the ship participated in numerous military training exercise in the Mediterranean, and in humanitarian campaigns in Far East and in the Tyrrhenian Sea, such as the search for victims of the Ustica Massacre and recovery of homeless people in the port of Naples after the 1980 Irpinia earthquake.^[1]

Later it was moved to Taranto as flagship of the 2nd Naval Division. It was decommissioned in 1992 after further operations, including support to the Italian mission in the Lebanon War and during the American Bombing of Libya (1986).^[1]