Talk:Grecale/@comment-25057891-20190924004721/@comment-26082284-20190928113154

To put things in perspective: Regia Marina entered the war with 59 destroyers. Of those only 8 survived the war (+ 3 completed during the war), most of them in bad shape. Moreover, Italy had to give away 7 destroyers as reparations to other countries after the war.

During the war Grecale survived 7 airstrikes, 11 submarine attacks, commando attack (Italians managed to remove explosives planted on her hull before they could explode) and collision. She took part in over 150 sorties, including surface combat, ASW, mining, transport, escort, training and transfer.

She not only survived all this atrocity in relatively good health, but also continued her career first running some clandestine operations for Allies, and then after the war (and getting kai) continued working for almost a decade. After that she got another kai (kai ni?) turning into fast ASW frigate, and then yet another kai (kai san?) turning her into command ship, so she could substitute for Duca as a flagship of Italian navy.

To sum this up, in her 30-years career she definitely went places and her luck is well deserved. Maybe even more than other lucky girls.