Yesterday morning, on the occasion of the "Day of Remembrance of Sailors who disappeared at sea", two commemorative events were celebrated, one in Brindisi at the National Monument to the "Sailor of Italy" and the other in the waters of the La Maddalena archipelago aboard the Tavolara ship.
The commemorative day commemorates the sinking of the battleship Roma on 9 September 1943. An anniversary in which the Navy remembers and commemorates, in perennial memory of the sacrifice, all the sailors, military and civilians, who disappeared at sea.
A symbolic day linked to the sinking of the battleship Roma, hit and sunk in the waters of Asinara by a German plane. That tragic 9 September the sea engulfed 1393 sailors together with the ship's commander, vessel captain Adone Del Cima, and the commander of the Royal Navy's Naval Forces, Admiral Carlo Bergamini. Still on the same day, in the waters of the Maddalena archipelago, the destroyers Da Noli and Vivaldi were hit and sunk, causing 270 victims.
The two ceremonies of yesterday wanted to renew the memory of the high toll of lives that wars on the sea have demanded over time, and thereby keep alive the sense of sacrifice offered by sailors in favor of the homeland. The Chief of Staff of the Navy, team admiral Giuseppe De Giorgi, together with the commander-in-chief of the naval team admiral Filippo Maria Foffi and the commander general of the Port Authorities Admiral Chief Inspector Felicio Angrisano, as well as local civil and religious authorities.
In the ceremony aboard the Tavolara ship, a crown was blessed and released into the sea in memory of the "fallen on the sea" by the commander of the MM garrison and commander of the Navy Military Non-commissioning School ship captain Claudio Confalonieri and the mayor of La Maddalena lawyer Luca Carlo Montella.
