"The Navy Chief of Staff communicates:

The enemy tried yesterday morning to resume possession of the island of Pelagosa, bombarding it from the sea with two light cruisers and six destroyers, while a sailors' department landed on the island.

Monday - Following the death of King Umberto, the Good King, (the day before - Sunday 29 - in Monza by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci, will ascend the throne the Crown Prince Vittorio Emanuele, the third of the dynasty to bear the name ) the Navy adopts the regulations of funeral services, among which the flag at half mast, flagpoles brim, funeral with cannon shot at the rhythm of 15 'and the last day on order by telegraph, after the execution of the last save, flags and signs of command carried to shore.

Tuesday - Part from Genoa the Eurydice sailboat for the summer education campaign in the Tirreno of the official students of the Marina schools; the students of the southern school had arrived the day before from Naples on the Plebiscito transport).

26/07/2014 - The Great War is unanimously recognized as a land and trench war, nevertheless the Royal Navy distinguished itself in a brave and heroic way by playing a decisive role in its outcome.

Saturday - In London during the IV Olympic Games, Enrico Porro, hopes the Navy, municipality of 1a class in Lever service on board of the torpedo ship school Castelfidardo, wins the gold medal in the Greco Roman fight light weight category, after beating the Russian champion Nikolay Orlov, he was awarded by Queen Alexandra of England.

Tuesday - The channel connecting the Gulf of the same name to the Aegean Sea - Corinth Canal - is solemnly inaugurated in Corinth - cutting the relative isthmus in two, allowing a drastic reduction in navigation times for those who had to make the Peloponnese circumnavigation.

Tuesday - Following the dangerous political-military situation in Shanghai between the two opposing factions fighting for the presidency of the republic, loyalists loyal to the government formed by men of Kuo-min-tang, the party that won the election, and of the opposition led by the provisional president Yuan Shi-kai, supported respectively by the formations of the Chinese army of the northern regions and the southern regions, in a meeting of the Naval Commanders of the units present in the port is decided to land companies of sailors with the task to prevent armed people from entering the city and to divide the defense into sectors, each belonging to a ship.

Thursday - Coming to Santos the ram torpedoes Calabria (commander, frigate captain Mario Casanuova Ierserinch) during his fourth journey of circumnavigation after brief visits to some islands of the Lesser Antilles and Rio de Janeiro. During the stop the unit receives the order to be in San Francisco in the second half of October to participate in the festivities of the Portola Festival.

Domanica - Due to the so-called "Nasi case" the armored Sardinia is dislocated in Messina due to the need for public order. The unit will stop in the Sicilian port until 30 and then return to La Spezia.

Saturday - The armored cruiser Marco Polo enters service in Naples. Born from the hull of a protected cruiser of the class "Etna" subsequently modified, in order to save time to get the first armored cruiser of the Royal Navy with new elaboration of the original project, the results were rather disappointing.

Sunday - For the direct involvement of New Vice Chief Admiral Paolo Thaon of Revel, Chief of Staff of the Navy, a Convention between the Ministry of War and the Navy concerning the construction of bases and aircraft, its financial clauses and the use on the sea of ​​Navy aircraft under the operational control of the Navy, which can be considered the formal act of the birth of the Italian Navy Air Force.

Friday - At dawn the weather is bad with the threat of a libeccio storm. At 07 the ships of Admiral Albini in front of Porto Carober with rafts, steamboats and lances at sea are awaiting the order of landing now imminent for the arrival of the 500 Navy Infantry men under the command of Colonel Francesco Magnasco from the steamer Piemonte.

Friday - After midnight the torpedo boats on the high seas, after the captain of vessel Enrico Millo from Vettor Pisani had moved on the Spica, make the maneuver independent and direct in line in a row to force the Dardanelles strait while the units of support remain to commute in front of the mouths beyond the reach of the fortification cannons.

Saturday - The gunboats Castore and Polluce (class "Castore") are entered in the framework of the State Navy and on the same date they enter service in Naples. Built in the Armstrong shipyard in Pozzuoli on behalf of the Ministry of War and from this sold to the Navy in January of 1890 while they were on the construction sites.

Guglielmo Marconi tests are carried out in the waters of Spezia with positive results of radiotelegraphic transceiver with the battleship San Martino (commander, captain of vessel Enrico Zino) with connections maintained up to 18.000 m.

Sunday - The battleship King Umberto under the command of the captain of a vessel, Giovanni Bettolo entered service in Naples.

Late in the evening the small fishing vessel Angel of Abundance in the waters of the Ionian sea en route between Capo Melito and Crotone, it is the object of dangerous approach by three sailboats without a flag, which force it to throw itself into the coast.

Sunday - At 15's elderberry t of displacement, bought last May in Hodeida for colonial service in the Red Sea is given the name Gazelle. This was followed by others, of varying displacement between the 15 and the 90 t, built to order or captured by smugglers and pirates, and normally located in Massaua and then, with the extension of the Italian protectorate to the northern coast of Migiurtinia, to Bender Ziada.

Saturday - Taking advantage of a partial crisis within the government, the minister Augusto Riboty retires to private life after advising the King (who normally pre-orders the two ministers of the War and the Navy when they are military) to replace him with the new counter-admiral Simone Pacoret of Saint Bon, decorated with a military gold medal for his conduct in Lissa and a Member of Parliament, which thus became part of the new government.

Sunday - The landing operation on the island of Pelagosa (today Palagruža, Croatia) of a department of 90 sailors under the command of the lieutenant of vessel Alberto da Zara, which takes part in: