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Ramb II
The Italian auxiliary cruiser Ramb II was a banana boat built at Monfalcone by the Re-United Yards of the Adriatic (''Cantieri Riuniti dell' Adriatico'', CRDA) in 1937.
==Design==
''Ramb II'' was the second of four sister ships all built to the same design. The other ships were the , the , and the . The four ships were built for the Royal Banana Monopoly Business (''Regia Azienda Monopolio Banane'') to transport refrigerated bananas from Somaliland and Eritrea in Italian East Africa. However, in the event of war, the design of ''Ramb II'' allowed it to be refitted as an "auxiliary cruiser" for commerce raiding. She was 3,667 tons displacement, oil powered, and capable of 18½ knots.
Following Italy's declaration of war on 10 June 1940, ''Ramb II'' became part of the Italian Royal Navy (''Regia Marina''). She was armed with two guns and eight anti-aircraft guns. The refitting work to convert the banana boat to an auxiliary cruiser was performed at the Eritrean port of Massawa. ''Ramb II'' was part of the Italian Navy's Red Sea Flotilla.
In February 1941, as the East African Campaign started to go badly for the Italians, Massawa, the home port for ''Ramb II'' became more endangered. Along with ''Eritrea'' and ''Ramb I'', ''Ramb II'' slipped through a British blockade off Perim and sailed into the Indian Ocean on 20 February 1941. On 27 February 1941 ''Ramb I'' was intercepted and sunk by cruiser HMNZS ''Leander'', but the other two sailed across the Indian Ocean and the Sunda Sea.
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