On 2 December 1909 the glorious name Quarto was imposed on the new combat unit under construction at the Venice Arsenal. "The Quarto is one of the most successful units of our Navy and has rendered, in its twenty-four years of operation, excellent services in peace and in war, at home and abroad, confirming that truly good ships, as a project and as material , they always remain good ".

Thursday - On the initiative of the Ministry of War, the Air Force School under the command of the navy lieutenant Mario Calderara is established on the Centocelle (Rome) airfield.

Thursday - They are declared on a war footing starting from the 30 June:

The TA I and TA III armaments of Senigallia and Rimini arrive in a timely manner to counteract the contemporary attack of Austrian crusaders against the Romagna and Marche coasts. The Italian coastal counter-attack destroys a "Tatra" type destroyer and folds down the opposing ships.

Thursday - The construction of three armored ships with towers, a 1a helicopter class gunboat and three 2a class gunboats is authorized, using the first tranche of funds allocated in the 1872 budget for the "Riboty" program.

The battle, also called Capo Spartivento, is one of the first Italian responses to the "night of Taranto" of the previous November 11.

Sunday - On the proposal of the Minister of the Navy, Admiral Pasquale Leonardi Cattolica, King Vittorio Emanuele III grants to the Forces from the landing of the Regia Marina the flag of war, decorated with Gold Medal for Military Value "for the daring and heroism demonstrated in the various actions carried out in October 1911 for the occupation of Tripolitania and of Cyrenaica ".

Friday - To give greater security to the deployment of Derna the command of the Italian garrison operates an offensive survey on three columns in the internal areas, in particular those along the homonymous Uadi (Wadi or Wadi is the bed of a stream in which it flows , or flowed, torrential water).

Friday - The first French submarine Gymnote (had been built in the Arsenal of Toulon and launched the 24 September 1888) of 30 electric propulsion designed by Eng. Gustave Zédé and strongly wanted by Admiral Hyacinthe Aube, head of the Marine Nationale, begins a series of tests and trials off Toulon.

21/11/2014 - Born in 1917, Eagle of the Regia Aeronautica, last great living Ace of the latter, as well as Gold Medal for military valor, has definitively opened its wings and left us for more serene skies. Gorrini flew with the Fiat Cr. 42 “Falco”, the Macchi Mc. 200 “Saetta”, the Fiat G.50 “Freccia”, the Macchi Mc. 202 “Folgore”, the Macchi Mc. 205 “Veltro” and the Fiat G.55 “Centauro”.

Friday - In the late afternoon the armored cruiser San Giorgio under the command of the captain of ship Adolfo Cacace, flying the sign of the commander of the 2a Naval Division, rear admiral Umberto Cagni, on the move from Reggio Calabria to Naples, by mistake of navigation stranded on the beach of S. Agata Militello (Messina).

Sunday - Inauguration in the presence of Guglielmo Marconi of the RT station of Coltano (Pisa) of 250 kW, the most powerful Italian radio system. The station at the outbreak of the war with Turkey was transferred from the dependence of the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs to that of the Navy.

Tuesday - The minister presents in Parliament a bill for the organic plan of the Navy, the first of the Royal Navy which provides a naval line focused on 24 iron armored frigates, 10 wooden armored frigates, nine frigates, 12 corvettes, 14 notices , six armored gunboats, 12 gunboats, six armored batteries, 14 troop transport ships, a royal yacht: 108 units plus other wooden ships for naval stations and for trade defense.

Wednesday - Opening to the navigation of the Suez Canal solemnly inaugurated with a long row of ships, at the head of which the Aigle proceeds, the French imperial yacht that has on board the Empress Eugenie (Maria Eugenia Ignacia Augustina de Palafox and Portocarrero de Guzmán y Kirkpatrick, known as Eugenia de Montijo - Granada 5 May 1826 - Madrid 11 July 1920 -, nineteenth countess of Teba and tenth countess of Montijo, was empress of the French from 1859 to 1870 by virtue of her marriage to Napoleon III; last sovereign of France).

Saturday - The 1a Division of the Active Naval Squadron (armored King Umberto and Andrea Doria, Stromboli and Etruria torpedo boats, torpedo cruiser Partenope) under the command of the vice-ambassador Enrico Accinni leaves Naples for a political-military mission in the waters of the Turkish Levant where he is in by the government hamidiés a bloody repression of the Armenians (better known as the "massacre of the Armenians" or "Hamid massacres") that asked the Sublime Porta equality and cultural freedom.

Thursday - The steamship-warning Cristoforo Colombo enters service in Venice, first "cruise ship", part of the Xnumx "Riboty" naval program, the forerunner of future cruisers. The unit that had a displacement of 1872 t, was equipped with a powerful steam engine (2300 hp) of British construction powered by six boilers with the relevant speed of 3782 knots and was armed with eight medium-caliber guns.

Sunday - A new category of graduates and municipalities of the CRE for the service of torpedoes, gymnasts and torpedoes called Torpedinieri is established. The grades, the same of the gunners, are followed by the name "torpediniere" and the category badge is the stylized drawing of a mine Fulton embroidered in gold for the non-commissioned officers and in red wool for the caporali and sailors.

Friday - The America transport under the command of the captain of ship Carlo Alberto Puliga Quigini with the King and Queen on board leaves from Naples to Palermo with the escort of honor of the Permanent Team. The King and Queen will inaugurate the National Exhibition on 15 Day and will participate in the various celebrations at the crown of the event.

12/11/2014 - 53 years have passed since the tragic days of Kindu, the first international mission that the Air Force, with the personnel and means of the 46 ^ Air Brigade of Pisa, faced after the Second World War.

Thursday - After a long stay in New Orleans where he had received excellent reception from the authorities and the citizenship, the Liguria torpedo jet, under the command of the frigate captain Luigi di Savoia, duke of Abruzzi, continues urgently for Santo Domingo where the November 21 will arrive for give protection to the Italian consulate and to the Italians residing in danger for yet another political revolt that the United States and Germany are not unrelated to.