Fiamma Real Marina del Regno delle Due Sicilie

The Royal Navy of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (''Real Marina del Regno delle Due Sicilie'' or ''Armata di Mare di S.M. il Re del Regno delle Due Sicilie'') was the official term in documents of the era for the naval forces of the

Kingdom of the Two Sicilies The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ( it, Regno delle Due Sicilie) was a kingdom in Southern Italy from 1816 to 1860. The kingdom was the largest sovereign state by population and size in Italy before Italian unification, comprising Sicily and a ...

- it and the Royal Army together formed the Kingdom's armed forces. The modern use of the term ''Regio'' for royal was only introduced into the force's title after the annexation of the

Kingdom of Sardinia The Kingdom of Sardinia,The name of the state was originally Latin: , or when the kingdom was still considered to include Corsica. In Italian it is , in French , in Sardinian , and in Piedmontese . also referred to as the Kingdom of Savoy-S ...

. It was the most important of the pre- unification Italian navies and Cavour made it the model of the new Italian ''

Regia Marina The ''Regia Marina'' (; ) was the navy of the Kingdom of Italy (''Regno d'Italia'') from 1861 to 1946. In 1946, with the Italian constitutional referendum, 1946, birth of the Italian Republic (''Repubblica Italiana''), the ''Regia Marina'' ch ...

'' after the annexation of the Two Sicilies.

The Sea Army of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

In June 1815 Ferdinand returned to

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

from

Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...

together with the Bourbon Navy. With the simultaneous defeat of Murat, two vessels were handed over to the British, the corvette, two schooners, 24 gunboats and the two frigates, which were ceded to Ferdinand, who thus found himself a large and modern fleet. Largely the navy structure of this period was based on the Norman-Arab structure of navy as well as the

Spanish royal Navy The Spanish Navy or officially, the Armada, is the maritime branch of the Spanish Armed Forces and one of the oldest active naval forces in the world. The Spanish Navy was responsible for a number of major historic achievements in navigation, ...

. In December 1816 it formed the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, unifying the two previous kingdoms, and the king took the name Ferdinand I. In 1818 the General Ordinances of ''the Royal Navy of the Two Sicilies'' were promulgated relating to the entire composition and organization of the Navy: this is the first regulation made by the new kingdom in the maritime field; they constituted various bodies of officers, a nautical observatory, an Accademia di Marina and three Maritime Compartments:

and

Messina Messina (, also , ) is a harbour city and the capital of the Italian Metropolitan City of Messina. It is the third largest city on the island of Sicily, and the 13th largest city in Italy, with a population of more than 219,000 inhabitants in ...

. In the same year the new Marine Regulation. In 1820 the Navy was considerably strengthened, aligning three divisions with about seventy warships of all toes, with a clear prevalence of light woods. In July 1820 the frigate Amalia (formerly Carolina), together with other ships, escorted to Sicily a convoy of merchant ships bearing the Expeditionary Corps of Lieutenant General Florestano Pepe, sent to repress the insurrection of the island. On September 2, 1820, a fleet with the Amalia, the vessel Capri, the corvette Leone, the "

Polacca A polacca (or ''polacre'') is a type of seventeenth- to nineteenth-century sailing vessel, similar to the xebec. The name is the feminine of "Polish" in the Italian language. The polacca was frequently seen in the Mediterranean. It had two or th ...

" Sant'Antonio e Italia and 14 brigantini (force then increased with the sending, the following day, of six gunboats and a bomb), left Naples again and was sent to Sicily with other landing troops, to repress the revolutionary movements. Between 1827 and 1828 the frigate ''Regina Isabella'' of 44 cannons, the corvette ''Cristina'' of 32 guns and the brigantines ''Prince Charles'' and Francis I ''entered service.''

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