Tuesday - The submarine Jalea (commander, frigate captain Ernesto Giovannini) of 1a Squadriglia, who had left Venice the previous day for an ambush in the Gulf of Trieste, in the early hours of the afternoon, between Grado and Punta Salvore bumps with a prow of an unknown barrier sinking.
Of the crew of 18 men only six survivors are able to leave the boat but only one, the torpedo boat Arturo Vietri, manages to save himself to swim in Grado.
Commander Giovannini will receive the silver medal for military memory.
The wreck of the Jalea, identified ten days later by a seaplane in Venice, will be recovered in May of 1954, brought to Monfalcone and demolished there; the remains of the 12 crew members will be buried at the Redipuglia Shrine. In memory, in Monfalcone, by the citizens of 6 1954 will be erected a memorial stone.
