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Raffaele Rossetti
Raffaele Rossetti (12 July 1881 – 24 December 1951) was an Italian engineer and military naval officer who sank the main battleship of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I. He was also a politician of the Italian Republican Party. Biography Born in Genoa, Raffaele Rossetti graduated as an engineer from the University of Turin in September 1904. He went to study at the Italian Naval Academy of Livorno, where he became a lieutenant for the Italian Navy Engineering Corps. In December 1906 he graduated in "naval mechanical engineering" at the Politecnico di Milano. In 1909 he was promoted to captain and in 1911 went to Libya during the Italo-Turkish War with the cruiser ''Pisa''. During the first years of World War I he worked as the Director of the Navy Arsenal in La Spezia and was promoted to major. While working there he started creating a new weapon, based on his idea of a torpedo manned by a person, to be linked to enemy vessels underwater and explode und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffaele Rossetti
Raffaele Rossetti (12 July 1881 – 24 December 1951) was an Italian engineer and military naval officer who sank the main battleship of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I. He was also a politician of the Italian Republican Party. Biography Born in Genoa, Raffaele Rossetti graduated as an engineer from the University of Turin in September 1904. He went to study at the Italian Naval Academy of Livorno, where he became a lieutenant for the Italian Navy Engineering Corps. In December 1906 he graduated in "naval mechanical engineering" at the Politecnico di Milano. In 1909 he was promoted to captain and in 1911 went to Libya during the Italo-Turkish War with the cruiser ''Pisa''. During the first years of World War I he worked as the Director of the Navy Arsenal in La Spezia and was promoted to major. While working there he started creating a new weapon, based on his idea of a torpedo manned by a person, to be linked to enemy vessels underwater and explode und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Major
Major (commandant in certain jurisdictions) is a military rank of commissioned officer status, with corresponding ranks existing in many military forces throughout the world. When used unhyphenated and in conjunction with no other indicators, major is one rank above captain, and one rank below lieutenant colonel. It is considered the most junior of the field officer ranks. Background Majors are typically assigned as specialised executive or operations officers for battalion-sized units of 300 to 1,200 soldiers while in some nations, like Germany, majors are often in command of a company. When used in hyphenated or combined fashion, the term can also imply seniority at other levels of rank, including ''general-major'' or ''major general'', denoting a low-level general officer, and ''sergeant major'', denoting the most senior non-commissioned officer (NCO) of a military unit. The term ''major'' can also be used with a hyphen to denote the leader of a military band such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raid On Pula
The Raid on Pula (Italian: Impresa di Pola) was a maritime raid undertaken on 1 November 1918 at the end of World War I. It was carried out with a manned torpedo by two officers of the Italian ''Regia Marina'', Raffaele Paolucci and Raffaele Rossetti, with the goal of damaging what they thought was an Austro-Hungarian fleet anchored in the bay of Pula. The fleet was handed by the Austrians to the newly established State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs only a couple of hours before the raid, with Janko Vuković, previously an officer of the Austro-Hungarian navy The Austro-Hungarian Navy or Imperial and Royal War Navy (german: kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine, in short ''k.u.k. Kriegsmarine'', hu, Császári és Királyi Haditengerészet) was the naval force of Austria-Hungary. Ships of the A ..., being declared the commander-in-chief of the new state's navy. The state of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs had declared neutrality in the war and informed the Allies of this short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gold Medal Of Military Valor
The Gold Medal of Military Valour ( it, Medaglia d'oro al valor militare) is an Italian medal established on 21 May 1793 by King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia for deeds of outstanding gallantry in war by junior officers and soldiers. The face of the medal displayed the profile of the king, and on its reverse was a flag decoration and the words "for valour" On 14 August 1815, Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia replaced it with the Military Order of Savoy, now known as the Military Order of Italy. Charles Albert of Sardinia revived it on 26 March 1833, and added to it the Silver and Bronze medals. These had, on their faces, the coat of arms of Savoy with laurel branches, the royal crown, and the words "for military valor". On the reverse were two laurel branches enclosing the name of the decorated soldier, and the place and date of the action. With the proclamation of the Republic on 2 June 1946, the coat of arms of the House of Savoy was replaced with the emblem of the Italian R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limpet Mines
A limpet mine is a type of naval mine attached to a target by magnets. It is so named because of its superficial similarity to the shape of the limpet, a type of sea snail that clings tightly to rocks or other hard surfaces. A swimmer or diver may attach the mine, which is usually designed with hollow compartments to give the mine just slight negative buoyancy, making it easier to handle underwater. Types of fuses Usually limpet mines are set off by a time fuse. They may also have an anti-handling device, making the mine explode if removed from the hull by enemy divers or by explosions. Sometimes limpet mines have been fitted with a small turbine which would detonate the mine after the ship had sailed a certain distance, so that it was likely to sink in navigable channels (to make access difficult for other ships) or deep water (out of reach of easy salvage) and making determination of the cause of the sinking more difficult. Development In December 1938, a new unit was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Of Slovenes, Croats And Serbs
The State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs ( sh, Država Slovenaca, Hrvata i Srba / ; sl, Država Slovencev, Hrvatov in Srbov) was a political entity that was constituted in October 1918, at the end of World War I, by Slovenes, Croats and Serbs ( Prečani) residing in what were the southernmost parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Although internationally unrecognised, this was the first incarnation of a Yugoslav state founded on the Pan-Slavic ideology. Thirty-three days after it was proclaimed, the state joined the Kingdom of Serbia and the Kingdom of Montenegro to form the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Name The state's name derives from the three main South Slavic ethnic groups that inhabited it: the Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs. The Croats identified in the name were those residing in the preceding kingdoms of Croatia-Slavonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Dalmatia (including Boka Kotorska). The Serbs identified in the name were those residing in Bosnia and Herzeg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Rizzo
Luigi Rizzo, 1st Count of Grado and Premuda (1887–1951), nicknamed ''the Sinker'', was an Italian admiral. He is mostly known for his distinguished service in World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...; as a torpedo boat commander having sunk no fewer than two Austro-Hungarian battleships ( SMS ''Wien'' in 1917 and SMS ''Szent István'' in 1918). Biography Born in Milazzo, Sicily on October 8, 1887 to a family of merchant ship Captains. While a Student Captain in the Merchant Marine, on March 17, 1912 he was appointed second lieutenant of the Naval Reserve . During WW I from June 1915 to the end of 1916 he was assigned to the maritime defense of Grado, where, at the orders of LCDR Filippo Camperio first, and of CDR Alfredo Dentice di Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffaele Paolucci
Raffaele () is an Italian given name and surname, variant of the English Raphael. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Raffaele Amato, Italian mobster *Raffaele Cutolo, Italian mobster *Raffaele Ganci, Italian mobster *Raffaele Cantone, Italian magistrate *Raffaele De Rosa, Italian motorcycle racer * Raffaele Di Paco, Italian cyclist *Raffaele Fitto, Italian politician *Raffaele Guariglia, Italian politician *Raffaele Lombardo, Italian politician *Raffaele Palladino, Italian footballer *Raffaele Pinto, Italian racing driver *Raffaele Pisu, Italiano actor *Raffaele Riario, Italian cardinal *Raffaele Rossetti, Italian politician *Raffaele Carlo Rossi, Italian cardinal *Raffaele Viviani, Italian artist *Raffaele Contigiani (1920–2008), Italian architect Surname * Virginia Raffaele, Italian actress See also * Raphael (other) * Rafael (other) * San Raffaele (other) * Raffaello (other) Raffaello, Raffaele or Raffaellino is an Italia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mignatta Submarine
Raffaele Rossetti (12 July 1881 – 24 December 1951) was an Italian engineer and military naval officer who sank the SMS Viribus Unitis, main battleship of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I. He was also a politician of the Italian Republican Party. Biography Born in Genoa, Raffaele Rossetti graduated as an engineer from the University of Turin in September 1904. He went to study at the Italian Naval Academy of Livorno, where he became a lieutenant for the Italian Navy Engineering Corps. In December 1906 he graduated in "naval mechanical engineering" at the Politecnico di Milano. In 1909 he was promoted to Captain (naval), captain and in 1911 went to Libya during the Italo-Turkish War with the cruiser ''Pisa''. During the first years of World War I he worked as the Director of the Navy Arsenal in La Spezia and was promoted to major. While working there he started creating a new weapon, based on his idea of a torpedo manned by a person, to be linked to enemy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
