On the battleship Vittorio Emanuele (commander, ship captain Paolo Thaon di Revel) boarded in Vado Ligure, the King accompanied by the deputy admiral Carlo Mirabello to go to the island of Elba to inspect the techno-logistic arrangements of the Portoferraio passenger naval base , activated for the current exercise.
[Passenger base was a naval base of temporary use, mainly used in the concentration of merchant and military units in view of the formation of a convoy destined for the transport of a shipping body or the projection outside the area of a naval force]
Source: Military Navy
