Tuesday - Comes into service in Naples under the command of the frigate captain Vincenzo Casamarte the gunboat Scilla of the homonymous class (two units) of 1076 t, built in the Castellammare di Stabia shipyard to a design by the then 1st class director of the Naval Engineers Benedetto Brin and launched on 10 October 1874.
Sunday - The Oceanic Naval Division is set up under the command of Rear Admiral Camillo Candiani with a sign on the armored cruiser Carlo Alberto.
Friday - The gunboat enters service in Venice Governolo, third large traditional gunner after the Volturno and the Curtatone. Having set the 19 1891 on the Venice Arsenal 1 and launched the 1894 May 1222, XNUMX moved t.
Tuesday - The frigate captain in the reserve Domenico Bonamico, the leading exponent of Italian naval thought, in a significant article (two chapters of forty-one pages in total) on the "Maritime Magazine", editorials of March and April, The naval strategy.
Thursday - Enter service a Newcastle-on-Tyne where the torpedo ram was built and set up Dogali under the command of the frigate captain Roberto de Luca. The unit will sail the 17 May to Naples where the 2 will arrive in June and become part of the Permanent Team.
Sunday - A new model of bowsprit (or "jack" according to the current naval lexicon) has been established which, as reported by the Royal Decree: the flag of bowsprit, which the royal ships must keep raised when standing, will be square in shape with a vertical white cross in a red field surrounded by blue, ...
Monday - In Naples on the submarine Seal (commander, lieutenant Ernesto Giovannini) parked during the transfer from La Spezia to Venice, his assignment office, while the battery charger is underway there is an explosion of hydrogen that causes the fire of the petrol; to avoid the flames of difficult containment and extinction, the boat is sunk at the moor.
Thursday - The cruiser arrives in Venice Christopher Columbus under the command of the vessel captain Matteo Fecarotta back from a demanding oceanic campaign (four years and five months), the second voyage of circumnavigation of the unit and tenth for the Navy, the longest ever.
Wednesday - On the arctic pack the team of Umberto Cagni struggling with desperation between hardship and fatigue and recognized the impossibility to proceed further, reached the point 86 ° 33'49 "N 55 ° E will plant the national flag, surpassing the record of Nansen of 37 km but still far from the 381 km.
Tuesday - The cruiser Christopher Columbus (commander, captain of Napoleon vessel Canevaro) engaged in a circumnavigation trip stops at Batavia to embark the remains of Nino Bixio that he will bring to his homeland.
Wednesday - In Naples on board the explorer Quarto at the mooring in the naval base at the pier San Vincenzo a furious fire broke out developing in the depot of naphtha that puts a strain on the crew and staff of the base to circumscribe the extension and the shutdown.
Sunday - In the waters of La Maddalena the torpedo boat 128 S he spurs the torpedo boat on the high seas due to an error in maneuvering Orione (commander, lieutenant Dominic Montese) reporting extensive damage but managed to enter the port with their own means while theOrione suffers minor damage.
Wednesday - Following the resignation of Minister Orazio Di Negro, the Navy Department is hired by the major artillery general Efisio Cugia di Sant'Orsola.
Sunday - A Spezia the king Vittorio Emanuele after having attended the arsenal at the launch of the battleship Roma of the "Vittorio Emanuele" class, in the course of a solemn ceremony handed over to the battleship Regina Elena (commander, captain of vessel Davide Gerra) the fighting flag interwoven and worked by the students of the professional school of Rome.
Tuesday - The frigate captain Giorgio Sorrentino commander of the torpedo ship Elba assisted by Ensign Massimiliano Gonzembach at the head of a department of 150 Eritrean ascari (carried by the transport Volta) undertakes from Mogadishu a punitive expedition against the Somali tribes Daùd, Udalàn and Heib Mursala responsible for the Lafolè massacre.
Thursday - The Xnumx order helicopter corvette enters service in Genoa Princess Clotilde. Set on behalf of the Sardinian Navy in the 1861 in the Foce shipyard, launched the 10 1864 august and the displacement of 2182 t, was a three armed masts equipped with a steam engine apparatus capable of imparting a speed of 9 knots and armed with 20 cannons in covered battery.
Thursday - The notice Rapido (commander, frigate captain Carlo Amoretti) participates jointly with British and Germanic units to block the coasts of East Africa for the repression of the slave trade. The mission will end the 30 August with the repatriation of the unit.
Monday - The minister presents the organic plan for the Navy to the Chamber. Result of the work of various commissions, the plan, taking into account the confrontation with Austria in the Adriatic, provided a battle component on 21 steam ships, 21 sailing ships with auxiliary motor for the protection of trade, the attack, the defense of ports and staff training, 12 units between notices, armored gunboats and a royal yacht, 15 wooden gunboats and auxiliary units.
Friday - Experiments and tests of night flight by seaplane stations of the Venezia-S station are conducted. Andrew.
Sunday - The armored frigate enters service Regina Maria Pia that leaves Toulon after the formal delivery to the Navy to reach the 19 in Genoa after a brief stop in Villefranche.