Italian aircraft carrier Sparviero
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| Builder | Ansaldo, Genoa |
| Launched | 13 December 1926 as ocean liner Augustus |
| Out of service | Augustus Laid up from 1940 to 1942 |
| Renamed | 1941 |
| Refit | Royal Italian Navy began conversion work in 1942, incomplete due to 1943 surrender of the Kingdom of Italy |
| Captured | 1943 by National Republican Navy of the Italian Social Republic |
| Fate | Taken over by occupying German troops in 1944 and scuttled as blockship. Raised in 1947 and scrapped in 1951 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Escort carrier |
| Displacement | 30418 tons |
| Length | 232.5 m (762 ft 10 in) |
| Beam | 29.4 m (96 ft 5 in) |
| Draught | 7.39 m (24 ft 3 in) |
| Installed power | 28,000 horsepower (21,000 kW) |
| Propulsion | diesels |
| Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Capacity | 1,420 men (including 107 officers) |
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Sparviero (Italian: "Sparrowhawk") was an Italian aircraft carrier designed and built during World War II of the Regia Marina. She was originally the ocean liner MS Augustus built in 1926 for Navigazione Generale Italiana, but was transferred to the new Italian Line after the merger of Navigazione Generale Italiana with the Lloyd Sabaudo and the Cosulich Line. The conversion was started in 1942 originally under the name Falco but was never completed, and the ship was never delivered to the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy). She began to be scrapped in 1947, a process completed by 1951.