Wednesday - At dawn, in the Red Sea, the destroyer Grenadier (commander, corvette captain Roberto Petrelluzzi) resumed the shooting against troop concentrations along the coasts of Yemen and following orders received from the Calabria torpedo aeronautie that operates nearby, moves its field of action further south, in the area of the Strait of Bab el Mandeb against coastal objectives.

Tuesday - A new type of torpedo torch from 450 mm called "pincer" is operative and regulated, easy to use, with little bulk and weight, but it can not be tilted and installed only on the side because it is lateral release.

Saturday - Given the nature of the inks of typewriter tapes that do not withstand the action of time and lend themselves to being too easily erased without leaving a trace of the previous writing a ministerial provision establishes that the use of such a writing system is limited to ordinary correspondence and to those official acts which have only a relative and temporary importance.

Thursday - The 24 Declaration signed in Cairo on December 1885 with which Italy had acceded to the Convention on 4 August 1877 date between Great Britain and Egypt for the fight against the slave trade.

The Royal Navy, to attack the Austrian naval bases in the upper Adriatic, realizes new means: MAS, and assault vehicles. The MAS (Anti Submersible Speedboat) is a light, fast unit, equipped with a heavy machine gun, two torpedoes and anti-submarine bombs, which, due to its small size, can catch the enemy ships by surprise and can also perform actions in water restricted.

Saturday - Undersecretary of State for the Navy admiral team Domenico Cavagnari establishes at the Navy Command of Naples the Direction of the sailing sport of the Navy (Marivela) appointing director the Commander in chief of the maritime department of the low Tyrrhenian Admiral d'Armata Ernesto Burzagli.

Friday - Dogali's torpedo ram (commander, frigate captain Francesco Preve) located in the Indian Ocean, after boarding the consul Vincenzo Filonardi in Zanzibar, he goes to Obbia (Migiurtinia) to start negotiations on the possibility of ensuring the protection of Italy on the sultanate of Obbia, as requested by the sultan Jusuf Ali.

Saturday - The auxiliary ship Europa arrives in Spezia and the 20 day in the arsenal will be subjected, on the project of the captain of the Naval Engineer pilot Alessandro Guidoni, to work of transformation in a seaplane and submarine support vessel. The urgent need to place the unit quickly led the work to be completed in a few months, partly because the construction characteristics of the ship lent itself quite easily to rapid transformation.

Sunday - The torpedo boats N.1 (commander, lieutenant of ship Carlo Farina) and N.2 (commander, lieutenant of vessel Luigi Armani) enter service in Spezia. The N.1 built at the British Thornycroft shipyard in Chiswick (London), completing the 1 February 1878, was transported by sea to La Spezia where it was delivered at the beginning of the year; likewise the N.2, built in the Yarrow British shipyard of Poplar (London) and transported to Spezia by the Greek steamer Ellen.

Wednesday - Enter the service in Spezia at the command of Lieutenant Tullio Bonamico the submarine Atropo, built in the Germany-Krupp shipyard in Kiel with setting at the airport in March 1911 and launch 22 1912 March.

Sinking in the Sicilian Channel of the destroyer Saetta due to the explosion of a mine. The commander, corvette captain Enea Picchio, veteran of the escorting convoys, after having done everything possible to save the crew, disappears at sea with the unit, earning the gold medal for military valor in memory.

Friday - Part from Montevideo, where it was station, the Magenta helicopter corvette under the command of the frigate captain Vittorio Arminjon for the far more important oceanic campaign that was accomplished by the Navy of the new Kingdom of Italy in the first decade of its constitution.

Sunday - The ram torpedoes Etna (commander, captain of vessel Giovanni Giorello) arrived in Chania where there is a continuous state of alarm, he puts down a landing company to ensure protection at the consulate.

Sunday - Lieutenant Castruccio Castracane of the Antelminelli and the sub-lieutenants of Giulio Valli, Manfredo Gravina di Ramacca and Bruno Brivonesi are destined to attend (15 February) the first pilotage course of dirigibles to the School of Management of Vigna di Valle where the lieutenant of vessel Guido Scelsi (one of the first patents) performs the task of instructor.

Sunday - Starting from Genoa, the helicopter frigate Prince Umberto under the command of the captain of ship Guglielmo Acton with 103 ensign for an educational campaign in South America with a stopover in the main ports of the Atlantic and Pacific, from Rio de Janeiro to Callao, with two crossings of the Strait of Magellan, the first of an Italian warship.

The passage from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic of the Orseolo block violator, which took place on 25 January 1942, is not the first nor the last of the companies of this kind scored by Italian sailors during the Second World War.

Wednesday - In Eritrea, during the second campaign of Africa, a column of supplies and reinforcement of 548 Army men under the command of Colonel Thomas De Cristoforis marching towards the Saati garrison under siege by 7000 Abyssinians led by ras Alula , is attacked and after four hours of fierce combat even the white weapon exterminated in the locality of Dogali, about 20 km west of Massaua.

Friday - Enter service in Naples under the command of the frigate captain Francesco Grenet the cruiser Flavio Gioia, class head of two units.

Monday - The cruiser Calabria (commander, frigate captain Oreste Poggi) from Beirut arrives in Massaua and joins the Red Sea Naval Force.

The unity throughout the period of the coming conflict will remain in the Red Sea in the service of the colony, occasionally making missions along the coasts of Somalia.

Sunday - The Permanent Team under the command of Vice-Admiral Federico Martini with a sign on the battleship Prince Amedeo, composed of three battleships (Principe Amedeo, Ancona, Regina Maria Pia), two notices (Vedetta, Rapido) and Sebastoni Veniero, from Naples Suda where 31 will arrive to take part in the international naval demonstration following the disturbances on the island concerning the complex local political issue between Greeks and Turks.