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Year 1960

The listed minesweepers docked at the West PierIn August 1960 4 Minesweepers of the Italian Navy visited the port, 5510-Larice, 5511-Noce, 5512-Olmo, 5514-Pino, 5507-Faggio, 5516-Platano.

They were Mine Dredgers Wood and Fir Subclass. This subclass included 17 units built in US Shipyards to N.A.T.O. specifications between 1953 and 1957. They had the Monocarena hull in wood and therefore No-magnetic Materials. 

(They were armed with two 20/70 mm. anti-aircraft machine guns in a twin system. Engine system: two Diesel engines with a power of 900 HP. Speed Max 14 knots.)

"Montecuccoli" Light Cruiser
"Montecuccoli" Light Cruiser
And in the same month of August also the Light Cruiser of the Regia Marina, Raimondo Montecuccoli. came to Sanremo. 
He was one of the 4 Cruisers of the Condottieri class (with the Cadorna, il Giuseppe Garibaldi,e il Duca degli Abruzzi) left to the Italian Navy by the Peace Treaty. 
And when he came to Sanremo he had already been transformed into a School Ship.
He was disbarred 4 years later.


Postcard with AGAVE Class MinesweepersIn August 1960 4 Agave Minesweepers of the Legni class, Agave subclass  came to Sanremo to visit (but not when there was the Montecuccoli). 

Sailors on the dock watch the Minesweepers of the Legni classThey were all built in Italian Shipyards. 5533-Edera and 5532-Alloro launched in 1955 at the CRDA of Monfalcone, 5538-Loto launched in 1956 at the Celli Shipyards of Venice, 5541-Trifoglio launched in 1955 at the Shipyards of Taranto.

The Agave Subclass included 12 vessels. 


(Displacement 405 tons s.l. , Propulsion 2 diesel engines 1200 HP, speed 14 knots -- armament 1 Bined machine gun 20/70 mm).

(sources: Dino Taulaigo text; images from personal archive)