Ron van Maanen

The newspaper Giornale d’Italia claimed that she knew the contents of the naval programme just accepted in the cabinet. There were four dreadnoughts to be built, each costing 55.000.000 lire. Further more were a large number of scouts, torpedo boats and submarines to be built, total costs 264.000.000 lire. In 1912 would de Italian navy consist of 4 dreadnoughts of 20,000 tons, 6 battleships of 13,500 tons and 6 cruisers of 9,800, 3 of 7,350 tons and 2 of 6,500 tons. According to the same newspaper was this programme a response to the Austrian naval programme.