Cantiere della Foce

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Cantiere della Foce
IndustryShipbuilding
Foundedc. 1800
Defunct1930
HeadquartersGenoa, Italy

Cantiere della Foce (Shipyard of the Mouth) was an Italian shipyard founded around 1800 in the village of Foce (later absorbed by

Bisagno River. It built its first warship in 1804, but shipbuilding was very intermittent until the Kingdom of Sardinia acquired Liguria
in 1815.

Vickers-Terni into Odero-Terni in 1927. Two years later Odero-Terni bought the Cantiere navale fratelli Orlando of Livorno. The consolidated company became the Società per la Costruzione di Navi, Macchine ed Artiglierie Odero-Terni-Orlando (OTO) (later OTO Melara
) in 1929. The shipyard was closed in 1930 and demolished to allow for the expansion of the city of Genoa.

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