Talk:Littorio/@comment-26167838-20150502093157/@comment-24093250-20150503112731

She wasn't surrendered as a war prize; on September 1943 she, as the other major Italian ships, transferred to Malta and was disarmed, but no ship was "surrendered" (i.e. taken over by the Allies).

After the war, according to the peace treaty she was assigned to the United States, who renounced the option but imposed to the Italians that she be scrapped (like Vittorio Veneto, who was likewise assigned by the British and given up in the same way).