Talk:Littorio/@comment-24093250-20150517144517

Perhaps it should be reviewed how much she was damaged at Taranto... she took three torpedoes, two of which exploded on her starboard side near turret #1 causing two huge breaches (150 and 108 square meters), and the last, which caused a small breach on the port side near the rudder (which, together with its machinery, was damaged). The quantity of water that entered the hull was undoubtdedly great, but the structures of the ship weren't compromised, nor were the engines comprised in the flooded area. The decision to ground her meant that it was possible to raise her in a relatively short time (in December 1940, a month after her torpedoing), without even having to strip her of the main armament and other removable weights to lighten her, and she was fully repaired by March, even though the retraining of her crew still took two more months.

I'm not sure this counts as "badly damaged".