In the early hours of the afternoon the Italian ambassador in Constantinople, Marquis Camillo Garroni Carbonara, presented the declaration of war to the Ottoman government. Start time of hostilities: 17.00.
They are declared on a war footing:
- Navy personnel embarked on units intended to carry out operations relating to the occupation of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica;
- Navy personnel on board who eventually landed on the territories of the enemy State for war reasons;
- Navy personnel embarked for both service and passage on ships chartered by the State for the purposes of employment;
- starting from the day of embarkation, the troops of the Royal Army who are part of the Expeditionary Corps and the personnel of the same personnel.
- In the early afternoon two Ottoman torpedo boats, Tocat and Antalia, try, in succession, to leave Preveza, immediately intercepted by the destroyers Alpino (photo), Carabiniere, Espero of the 3rd Squadron (commander, captain of frigate Italo Ricci) on long patrol the Albanian coasts. The torpedo boat Tocat opens fire first but hit by the destroyers' fire, reverses the route and heads for the return, chased by the Carabiniere who continues the fire hitting it repeatedly; the Turkish unit runs aground on the beach N of Punta Mitica in flames and is abandoned by the crew. The other enemy unit, Antalia, hit several times, reverses its course, returns to the port without government and also runs aground and is lost.
- The destroyer Alpino (commander, frigate captain Giuseppe Bertetti) on patrol along the Albanian coast, stops in the late afternoon and inspects the British-flagged steamship Newa with Greek crew; weapons, ammunition, grain as well as Turkish soldiers (five officers and 172 soldiers) were found. Taken under escort from the same Alpino, the steamship will be brought to Taranto.
- In execution of the plan for the capture of Tripoli, the destroyers Lanciere (commander, frigate captain Nicola Tangari) and Garibaldino (commander, corvette captain Roberto Andrioli Stagno) protected by the torpedo cruiser Coatit (commander, frigate captain Giuseppe Mortola) they carry out a close survey of Argub beach to the E of the city where the landing of the troops of the Expeditionary Corps is expected.
- The units of the 2nd Naval Division of Rear Admiral Thaon di Revel (Garibaldi, Varese, Ferruccio, Marco Polo, Coatit and Minerva) evacuate the Italian citizens from Tripoli.
