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15 unusual facts about Italian Navy


Altare della Patria

The flags of disbanded units of the Italian Armed Forces, as well as the flags of ships stricken from the naval register of the Italian Navy are stored at the Vittoriano in the so-called Shrine of the Flags (Sacrario delle Bandiere).

Festa della Repubblica

The ceremony continues in the afternoon with the opening of the gardens of the Quirinale Palace, seat of the President of the Republic and with musical performances by the band ensembles of the Italian Army, Italian Navy, Italian Air Force, the "Arma dei Carabinieri", State Police, the "Guardia di Finanza", the Penitentiary Police Corps and the State Forestry Corps.

Francesco Dapiran

During World War II he served with the Italian Navy and, upon his return, resumed his activities with Ginnastica Triestina.

Impavido-class destroyer

The Impavido class were the second group of destroyers built for the Italian Navy (MMI) after World War II and the first Italian Guided Missile destroyers.

Impetuoso-class destroyer

The Impetuoso class were the first post war destroyers built for the Italian Navy.

International Gendarmerie

The people in Durrës panicked and the Prince took his family to shelter in an Italian ship anchored in the bay.

Italian Naval Academy

The Italian Naval Academy (Italian: Accademia Navale) is a coeducational military university in Leghorn (Livorno), which is responsible for the technical training of military officers of the Italian Navy.

Italian Navy

Within NATO, the Marina Militare was assigned the control of the Adriatic Sea and Strait of Otranto, as well as the defence of the naval routes through the Tyrrhenian Sea.

Italian special forces

The Italian Navy special forces unit is the COMSUBIN (Comando Subacquei ed Incursori) - the Raiders & Divers Group.

Iveco VM 90

The Torpedo version is also supplied with ground forces of the Italian Navy and the Italian Air Force.

Kálmán Tihanyi

From 1929, Tihanyi worked on television guidance for defense applications, building prototypes of a camera for remotely guided aircraft in London for the British Air Ministry, and later adapting it for the Italian Navy.

La dottoressa preferisce i marinai

The ship of the Italian Navy commander Carlo Morelli (Renzo Palmer) anchors at Bari port and he arranges a rendezvous with his mistress Dr. Paola (Paola Senatore) at a hotel but who arrives is his wife Clara (Marisa Mell).

Nazario Sauro

When Italy did join the effort in 1915, he was a volunteer in the Italian Navy, and assigned to a torpedo unit, accomplishing over 60 missions over a period of 14 months.

O and P-class destroyer

Pakenham * (ex-Onslow), built by Hawthorn Leslie & Company, Hebburn, damaged by gunfire from Italian Navy torpedo boats Cassiopea and Cigno off Marsala 1943-04-16, abandoned and sunk by sister ship HMS Paladin (see Battle of the Cigno Convoy)

Qazim Koculi

He disobeyed a military order in 1909 during a naval battle in Preveza by refusing to surrender to the Italian Navy.


9th Parachute Assault Regiment

In Iraq, Operation Antica Babilonia (Italian contingent of Multinational force 2003 - 2006) includes a section of special forces operatives, from the 9th, the Carabinieri's GIS and the Navy's COMSUBIN, mostly deployed for patrol missions, training local police and Army, and to arrest suspects of terrorism.

Beograd-class destroyer

Two of the three were captured by the Italian Navy after the invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941, and one of those was subsequently captured by the Germans.

Beretta M1951

ACP Beretta M 1934 in service until the adoption of the 9 mm Beretta 92; the M1951 was instead adopted by the Italian Navy, the Carabinieri and the Italian national Traffic Police, but has since been replaced in all services with the above-mentioned Beretta 92, in 1977.

Corps of Naval Engineering

The Corps of Naval Engineering (Italian language: Corpo del genio navale) is part of the Italian Navy under the control of the Ministry of Defence.