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Kantai Collection character personifying the Italian battleship Conte di Cavour, nameship of three Conte di Cavour-class dreadnought battleships of the Regia Marina. She is named after statesman Count Camillo Benso di Cavour. Like all of the Italian shipgirls in the game, she was fleshed out by Jiji, while her voice is provided by Iida Hikaru.
At 176 m (577 ft 5 in), the historical battleship is the shortest one to be included in the game as well as the oldest, being launced on August 10, 1911, around two months before the previous oldest Gangut. The short length of the historical battleship translates to a petite childlike appearance that is belied only by a visibly large bust and a very mature voice, to the point she is oftentimes mistaken for being an oppai loli.
Cavour has long silver hair that is tied in a two side up hairstyle as well as brown eyes. She wears a long-sleeved white and grey frilled dress with a corset that has openings that expose her cleavage and her armpits as well as white gloves and black boots. She bears visibly oversized machinery mainly composed of cannons, turrets, and smokestacks, including her three triple- and two-twin 305-mm guns. She can later be remodeled twice with improvements to her machinery as well as shortened sleeves to her dress. Her first remodel reflects the 1933-1937 improvements to the battleship while her "Nuovo" form illustrates her repairs and further refits that would have been completed by 1943 had it been for various circumstances to occur.
Because she is the oldest and shortest battleship in the game, her lines have her being height-conscious, having back pain due to her machinery, and complaining about the other Italian shipgirls already in the base, particularly Pola and several of the Maestrale-class girls for their behavior and Roma for calling her nosy and old. She does go along well with Gangut as long as she is not served vodka all the time.
The historical battleship served in both World Wars, although she saw no action and was little used in World War I, and supported operations during the Corfu Incident in 1923, before going into reserve. After her first refits, she and sister ship Giulio Cesare participated in the Battle of Calabria in July 1940, where the latter was lightly damaged. The historical Conte di Cavour was badly damaged when British torpedo bombers attacked the fleet at Taranto in November 1940 and was deliberately run aground. Repairs for her were never completed by the time of the Italian armistice in 1943. She was captured by the Germans, but they made no efforts to complete her repairs. She was damaged in an Allied air raid in early 1945 and capsized a week later. The historical battleship was eventually scrapped in 1946.
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