Thursday - The rules relating to the requisition of merchant ships, pleasure boats, boats and floats in general when circumstances of public necessity or in the general interest of the State are required.
Saturday - Sail from Venice under the command of the captain of a vessel Napoleone Canevaro the cruiser Cristoforo Colombo for a circumnavigation trip via Canale di Suez.
The unit is supplied, first Italian ship, the Siemens lighting dynamometer to illuminate points of the coast or illuminate surrounding areas of the sea, the electric projector.
Thursday - During the activities of the Italian-Turkish war, the cruiser Agordat (commander, frigate captain Carlo Albamonte Siciliano) out of Cagliari, stops in the central Tyrrhenian, in international waters, the French steamer Manouba suspected of transporting a group of Turkish officers including well-known war smuggler organizers under the guise of Red Crescent doctors, 17 so-called nurses and the sum of 250.000 lire in gold.
Saturday - The ship Eridano (former Tiber, former British merchant Edinburgh), radiated in the 1907 and kept in service until the end of the war as a depot ship, transferred to Bari and given under management at the National Opera of the Patronage, is finally sold to the Municipality of Bari that will institute on board elementary school courses and maritime specializations in favor of children of fishermen and foundlings.
Wednesday - The battleship Dante Alighieri under the command of vessel captain Silvio Belleni enters service in Naples after a long period of preparation, testing and testing lasted three years. Built in the construction site of Castellammare di Stabia with the 6 June 1909 setting on the airport, the 20 of 1910 was launched.
Sunday - The Governolo gunboat under the command of the frigate captain Ottaviano Morosini arrives in Massaua to serve according to the new post-Cunfida strategy.
It will remain in the Red Sea until October 26 and then repatriate.
On the morning of January 10, 1941, the Italian torpedo boats Circe (corvette captain Tommaso Ferrieri Caputi) e Vega (Lieutenant Captain Giuseppe Fontana) sighted and attacked an English convoy headed from Gibraltar to Malta. The British advanced escort (3 cruisers and 5 destroyers) engaged the Italian ships.
Monday - Calabria torpedo ram (commander, frigate captain Francesco Castiglia) from Callao (Peru) gives the bottom to Papeete (Tahiti).
Saturday - It was warfare for Navy personnel sent to serve in Korean territory.
Wednesday - In the course of the night Vittorio Emanuele II, the last King of Sardinia and the first King of Italy (the Galantuomo King), great protagonist of the Italian Risorgimento, who always understood the importance of the Navy in the general economy of the State, dies in Rome .
Saturday - The City of Palermo auxiliary cruiser (3414 tsl) under the command of the frigate captain Enrico Cuturi sinks with the loss of 90 men (between Italians and Britons) off Brindisi by colliding with a mine laid by the submarine Germanic postamine UC 14 (commander, lieutenant of vessel C. Bauer).
The outbreak of hostilities with the Ottoman Empire, in September 1911, sees at least in the Red Sea a relative prevalence of Turkish naval forces compared to those in Italy, so as to fear a possible coup against the basic defense of Massawa, in Eritrea .
Tuesday - The battleship Duilio of the homonymous class on two units enters service in Spezia.
Under the command of the captain of ship Pietro Caimi, the unit will remain dislocated in the Ligurian city for the last tests and for the completion of the initial training of the crew.
Monday - The Dandolo battleship is set up at the Arsenal of Spezia, before the three great ships designed by the director of 2 in the class of the Naval Engineers Benedetto Brin.
Thursday - Coming from the corvette captain Giuseppe Basso in Venice, the wheeled Sesia warning from Constantinople after 57 months of uninterrupted service at the Bosphorus Naval Station.
Friday - The first issue of the Ministry Order Sheet (FOM), handwritten in beautiful calligraphy, official publication signed by the Minister, published on a daily basis informing about administrative practices and movements of personnel and units. This publication is still published today, with administrative content and with varying frequency, rough, weekly.
The Adriatic can be very bad in winter and the events of these last days of 2014 confirm this ancient, unchanging truth.
One of the most beautiful (and least known) stories of the Second World War sees protagonists, at the end of the year 1941, four oceanic submarines of the Italian Underwater Forces Command in the Atlantic, the legendary BETASOM.
Thursday - The rangefinder set up by Rear Admiral Luigi Fincati is installed on board the units to quickly measure the distances of objects whose height is known or estimated.
Monday - At 05.21 a series of seismic shocks lasting 37 "of the intensity that reaches the 10 ° of the Mercalli scale is produced on the Sicilian and Calabrian slopes of the Strait of Messina with devastating effects that radically ground Messina (only 2% of the buildings is not damaged), they cause very serious damage to Reggio Calabria and small towns on both sides.