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Does anyone know what happened to the spare guns freed up when the Conte do Cavour class had their midship turret removed.

Also the turrets from the scrapped Leonardo da Vinci and the Dante Aligheri.

Were they scrapped ? or ended up as coastal artillery.

Could some have been reused in a commerce raider a sort of Fast monitor to harry convoys .

British monitors were disposable ships for shore bombardment to spare battleships the risk . Could the Italians have done the same to spare their own battleships from risk in the commerce raiding role.

A fast monitor with 3 , 12 inch could threaten convoys and tie up British forces in the escort role without risking a valuable battleship.
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