21/07/14 | History
21 happened July 1907: In Sicily for public order
[Former Sicilian minister Nasi had been accused of embezzlement and in those days the trial was celebrated, exploited for local political purposes] Source: Marina Militare
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21/07/14 | History
21 happened. 1894 July: Nave Marco Polo enters service
The reworking of the project, practically the conversion from a protected cruiser to an armored cruiser, did not allow Marco Polo to be a very efficient unit, ...
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20/07/14 | History
20 happened July 1913: Italian Naval Aviation is born
Source: Military Navy
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20/07/14 | History
The 20 July 1866 Happened: Battle of Lissa
At 07.50 the Scout warning sent in advance signals the approach from the NE of the Austrian team (seven armored frigates, seven non-armored units, nine gunboats ...
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19/07/14 | History
19 Happened July 1912: Raid in Italo-Turkish War 1911-1912
The torpedoes with fast navigation under the light of the projectors, between the fire of the coastal batteries and the mined fields, penetrate to the inner narrowed ...
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18/07/14 | History
The 18 July 1891 Happened: The Castor and Pollux gunsmiths were registered
Set up in the 1888 and built on the project of the same yards, they will come online during the year. Born from the orientation of building a ship around his ...
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17/07/14 | History
17 happened on July 1897: Positive results for Marconi's Radio
The tests that will last two days, and which had no precedent in the experiments conducted by Marconi himself in Great Britain, proved the possibility, until then ...
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16/07/14 | History
16 happened July 1893: Nave Re Umberto enters service
Class leader of three units, built in the yard of Castellammare di Stabia with the 10 July 1884 on the airport and the 17 October 1888, in the study of the project ...
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15/07/14 | History
15 happened July 1868: Last piracy in the Mediterranean
The incident then verified by the Harbor Master's Office of Taranto and related to a previous similar incident ...
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13/07/14 | History
13 happened July 1890: The employment of the Sambuchi
This was followed by others, of displacement between the 15 and the 90 t, built to order or captured at ...
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12/07/14 | History
The 12 July 1873 Happened: Minister Riboty leaves and advises the King
The agenda of the inauguration in office is the program of his mandate: to strengthen the naval instrument, ...
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11/07/14 | History
11 happened July 1915: Operation of landing at Pelagosa
the explorer Marsala, flagship (Rear Admiral Enrico Millo, commander of the operation); the Quarto in support ...
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11/07/14 | History
11 happened July 1911: Authorized Ministry ministry MM
The chosen building area is the one located in Rome at Lungotevere Flaminio in the area called “Villa Cavalieri ...
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10/07/14 | History
10 happened July 1897: First radiotelegraphic experiment
[Guglielmo MARCONI had come to Italy in June at the express invitation of Minister Benedetto Brin to continue the ...
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09/07/14 | History
09 happened July 1912: Flight accident for Guidoni
Pilot and mechanic, unharmed, are rescued by the battleship Dante Alighieri which was carrying out tests of ...
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09/07/14 | History
09 happened July 1912: The Falcon and Liguria in defense of Crete
The response of the Admiral Council to the provocation is immediate: the torpedo boat-warning Falco, the ram ...
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07/07/14 | History
07 happened July 1915: Sunk Amalfi
Human losses amount to 73 men including an officer; 682 the survivors gathered by the escort units and the ...
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07/07/14 | History
07 happened July 1900: Approved sending troops to China
The Navy proceeds to hire four sailboats, three to be used for the transport of troops and the fourth to transport ...
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06/07/14 | History
06 happened July 1891: Varata Nave Sicilia
Entry into service on 4 April 1895 has carried out much of the service in the Mediterranean both for defense activities ...
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06/07/14 | History
06 happened July 1866: Persano urged to combat
Admiral Persano is urged to take the sea to look for the enemy in its waters and deliver it to the ...
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Who will draw the short toothpick?
In today's meeting of the Council of Ministers, the issue of the nomination of the highest military head of Defense could be resolved. If years ago the candidates in the running for the nomination were...
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Letters to the Director
Letter to Difesa Online: "Are the chiefs of staff also censored now?"
Dear director, I have read the speech given by General Masiello to the 40th of the Lagunari and, remembering having read the Army Press Release (it dates back to 25 June, you were not...
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