Giulio Cesare (1955): Shipwreck Map, Location & Facts

Name	Giulio Cesare	Wikidata label
Year lost	1955	Wikidata P793 significant event, point-in-time qualifier
Era	Modern	derived from year
Ship type	dreadnought, battleship	Wikidata P31 instance of
Cause of loss	War action	Keyword match in English Wikipedia lead sentence
Nationality / flag	Kingdom of Italy, Soviet Union	Wikidata P8047 country of registry
Operator	Soviet Navy, Royal Italian Navy	Wikidata P137 operator
Conflict	World War I, World War II	Wikidata P607 conflict
Nearest coast	Crimea	Natural Earth (public domain)
Position	44.6186, 33.5356	Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0)

About the wreck

Giulio Cesare was one of three Conte di Cavour-class dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) in the 1910s. Completed in 1914, she was rarely used and saw no combat during the First World War. The ship supported operations during the Corfu Incident in 1923 and spent much of the rest of the decade in reserve. She was rebuilt between 1933 and 1937 with more powerful guns, additional armor and considerably more speed than before.

During World War II, both Giulio Cesare and her sister ship, Conte di Cavour, participated in the Battle of Calabria in July 1940, when the former was lightly damaged. They were both present when British torpedo bombers attacked the fleet at Taranto in November 1940, but Giulio Cesare was not damaged. She escorted several convoys to North Africa and participated in the Battle of Cape Spartivento in late 1940 and the First Battle of Sirte in late 1941. She was designated as a training ship in early 1942, and escaped to Malta after the Italian armistice the following year. The ship was transferred to the Soviet Union in 1949 and renamed Novorossiysk (Новороссийск).

Location

Recorded position: 44.6186, 33.5356 (Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0); may be approximate)
Nearest coast: Crimea

Wreck positions on this site are for interest only and are not for navigation. Many wrecks are war graves or legally protected: never disturb human remains or remove artefacts, and check local law before diving.

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Text adapted from the Wikipedia article Italian battleship Giulio Cesare (revision 1379406125), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section; condensed by selecting paragraphs and trimming at sentence boundaries; citations and formatting removed. No text added. This excerpt is available under the same licence.