Italian submarines in World War Two
Ammiraglio Millo (EM)
Millo
Type | Ocean going | |
Class | Cagni (18) | |
Laid down | 16 Oct 1939 | Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico, Monfalcone |
Launched | 31 Aug 1940 | |
Commissioned | 1 May 1941 | |
End service | ||
Stricken | ||
Loss date | 14 Mar 1942 | |
Loss position | 38° 27'N, 16° 37'E | |
History | ||
Fate | Torpedoed and sunk on 14th March 1942 in the Ionian Sea off Punta (Cape) Stilo, Calabria, Italy in position 38°27'N, 16°37'E by the submarine HMS P 34. |
Commands
Commander | Date from | Date to | Command notes |
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C.C. Benedetto Luchetti | 1 May 1941 | 19 Aug 1941 | |
C.C. Francesco Murzi | 20 Aug 1941 | 29 Nov 1941 | |
T.V. Federico Tamburini | 30 Nov 1941 | 13 Dec 1941 | |
C.C. Francesco Murzi | 14 Dec 1941 | 28 Dec 1941 | |
T.V. Carlo Zanchi | 28 Dec 1941 | 31 Dec 1941 | |
T.V. Federico Tamburini | 1 Jan 1942 | 4 Feb 1942 | |
C.C. Vincenzo D'Amato | 5 Feb 1942 | 14 Mar 1942 |
Ships hit
No ships hit by this submarine.Patrols and events
Commander | Date | Time | Port | Arr. date | Arr. time | Arr. port | Miles | Description | ||
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15 Apr 1941 | 1130 | Venezia | 15 Apr 1941 | 1820 | Monfalcone | Passage Venezia-Monfalcone. | ||||
Luchetti, Benedetto | 1 May 1941 | Monfalcone | 19 Aug 1941 | Monfalcone | At Monfalcone. | |||||
Murzi, Francesco | 31 Aug 1941 | 0634 | Monfalcone | 31 Aug 1941 | 1640 | Monfalcone | 69 | Exercises. | ||
Murzi, Francesco | 5 Sep 1941 | 0930 | Monfalcone | 5 Sep 1941 | 1635 | Pola | 80 | Passage Monfalcone-Pola. | ||
Murzi, Francesco | 8 Sep 1941 | 0613 | Pola | 8 Sep 1941 | 2227 | Pola | 169 | Diving trials. | ||
Murzi, Francesco | 11 Sep 1941 | 0739 | Pola | 11 Sep 1941 | 1407 | Pola | 49 | Exercises with Ammiraglio Cagni and the torpedo boat Audace, escorted by the auxiliary Morrhua. | ||
Murzi, Francesco | 12 Sep 1941 | 0830 | Pola | 12 Sep 1941 | 1713 | Pola | 5 | Exercises. | ||
Murzi, Francesco | 16 Sep 1941 | 0636 | Pola | 16 Sep 1941 | 1728 | Fiume | 122,5 | Exercises. | ||
Murzi, Francesco | 18 Sep 1941 | 1537 | Fiume | 18 Sep 1941 | 1920 | Fiume | 18 | Exercises. | ||
Murzi, Francesco | 22 Sep 1941 | 1502 | Fiume | 22 Sep 1941 | 1815 | Fiume | 15 | Exercises. | ||
Murzi, Francesco | 23 Sep 1941 | 1513 | Fiume | 23 Sep 1941 | 1756 | Fiume | 14 | Exercises. | ||
Murzi, Francesco | 29 Sep 1941 | 1401 | Fiume | 29 Sep 1941 | 1845 | Pola | 56 | Passage Fiume-Pola. | ||
Murzi, Francesco | 6 Oct 1941 | 0905 | Pola | 6 Oct 1941 | 2011 | Pola | 75 | Trials, escorted by the auxiliary San Giorgio. | ||
Murzi, Francesco | 8 Oct 1941 | 0735 | Pola | 8 Oct 1941 | 1836 | Pola | 150 | Exercises. | ||
Murzi, Francesco | 14 Oct 1941 | 1130 | Pola | 14 Oct 1941 | 1805 | Pola | 42,5 | Exercises. | ||
Murzi, Francesco | 18 Oct 1941 | 1411 | Pola | 18 Oct 1941 | 1614 | Pola | 4,5 | Exercises. | ||
Murzi, Francesco | 21 Oct 1941 | 0755 | Pola | 21 Oct 1941 | 1805 | Pola | 72 | Exercises. | ||
Murzi, Francesco | 25 Oct 1941 | 0707 | Pola | 25 Oct 1941 | 1845 | Pola | 124 | Trials. | ||
Murzi, Francesco | 26 Oct 1941 | 0836 | Pola | 26 Oct 1941 | 1518 | Pola | 56 | Trials escorted by the torpedo boat Audace and the auxiliary Grado. | ||
Murzi, Francesco | 28 Oct 1941 | 0803 | Pola | 28 Oct 1941 | 1740 | Pola | 65 | Exercises, escorted by the auxiliary Morrhua. | ||
Murzi, Francesco | 29 Oct 1941 | 1253 | Pola | 29 Oct 1941 | 2113 | Pola | 79,5 | Exercises, escorted by the auxiliary Grado. | ||
Murzi, Francesco | 31 Oct 1941 | 0914 | Pola | 31 Oct 1941 | 1650 | Pola | 57 | Exercises, escorted by the auxiliary Morrhua. | ||
Murzi, Francesco | 3 Nov 1941 | 2012 | Pola | 5 Nov 1941 | 1000 | Taranto | 514 | Passage Pola-Taranto. | ||
Murzi, Francesco | 20 Nov 1941 | 0715 | Taranto | 20 Nov 1941 | 1639 | Taranto | 30 | Exercises. | ||
1 | Murzi, Francesco | 21 Nov 1941 | 1300 | Taranto | 23 Nov 1941 | 1815 | Derna | Supply mission to Derna (138 tons of petrol in 7073 cans and 6.8 tons of ammunition in 325 boxes). Uneventful. | ||
1b | Murzi, Francesco | 24 Nov 1941 | 0613 | Derna | 26 Nov 1941 | 1330 | Taranto | 1173 | Return trip from supply mission to Derna. The submarine received several signals from MARICOSOM reporting enemy forces but did not alter course [mileage is for round trip]. | |
2 | Tamburini, Federico | 30 Nov 1941 | 1310 | Taranto | 3 Dec 1941 | 1810 | Bardia | Supply mission to Bardia and Benghazi (140.8 tons of petrol in 7398 cans, 29.7 tons of provisions and 1.05 tons of ammunition) (part 1). Ammiraglio Millo made a passage on the surface and maintained an average speed of 15 knots from Santa Maria di Leuca to Bardia. Uneventful. | ||
2b | Tamburini, Federico | 3 Dec 1941 | 2325 | Bardia | 6 Dec 1941 | 0835 | Benghazi | Supply mission to Bardia and Benghazi (140.8 tons of petrol in 7398 cans, 29.7 tons of provisions and 1.05 tons of ammunition) (part 2). She also brought twenty-nine British PoWs (one General, three colonels, three majors and twenty-two other ranks) to Benghazi. Uneventful. | ||
2c | Tamburini, Federico | 6 Dec 1941 | 2000 | Benghazi | 8 Dec 1941 | 2200 | Bardia | Supply mission to Bardia (provisions). Uneventful. British intelligence had expected a submarine to be unloading in Bardia on the night of 6/7th December, and three Albacore of 826 Squadron were sent to attack it, but Millo arrived only the next evening. | ||
2d | Tamburini, Federico | 9 Dec 1941 | 0145 | Bardia | 11 Dec 1941 | 1700 | Navarino | Passage Bardia-Navarino to refuel (carried fourteen PoWs and two wounded Germans). Millo had just entered Navarino, when she witnessed the attack by the submarine HMS Porpoise on the Sebastiano Venier at a distance of 6,000 metres and decided to delay her departure until after dark. She had assumed that the enemy submarine had sighted her, but this was not the case. | ||
2e | Tamburini, Federico | 11 Dec 1941 | 2300 | Navarino | 13 Dec 1941 | 1130 | Taranto | 2506 | Passage Navarino-Taranto [mileage is for round trip, from 30th November] and patrol in Grid 3074/5. | |
12 Dec 1941 | 0123 | (0) West of Navarino. | At 0123 hours, the destroyer Freccia and a torpedo-boat were sighted escorting a merchant vessel. Ammiraglio Millo had been informed of their passage and prudently submerged to avoid an incident [Freccia was carrying the survivors of the transport Calitea]. | |||||||
3 | Murzi, Francesco | 23 Dec 1941 | 1345 | Taranto | 25 Dec 1941 | 1212 | Tripoli | Supply mission to Tripoli (87 tons of petrol in 4376 cans, 61.3 tons of food supplies and 4.5 tons of ammunition). Uneventful. | ||
3b | Murzi, Francesco | 25 Dec 1941 | 1930 | Tripoli | 26 Dec 1941 | 1252 | Tripoli | Sailed from Tripoli and submerged in 32°59'N, 13°09'E as a precaution against night air raids and returned to complete the unloading. C.C. Murzi was injured in an automobile accident and was replaced by C.C. Zanchi. [Murzi became one of the Grupsom leaders in 1942]. | ||
3c | Zanchi, Carlo | 28 Dec 1941 | 1730 | Tripoli | 31 Dec 1941 | 1230 | Taranto | 1268 | Return trip from supply mission to Tripoli [mileage is for round trip]. | |
31 Dec 1941 | 0207 | At 0207 hours, a shadow was sighted and was believed to be a submarine. Millo took avoiding action. | ||||||||
Tamburini, Federico | 17 Jan 1942 | 0750 | Taranto | 17 Jan 1942 | 1257 | Taranto | 30 | Trials escorted by the auxiliary Germanelli. | ||
Tamburini, Federico | 19 Jan 1942 | 0845 | Taranto | 19 Jan 1942 | 1540 | Taranto | 84 | Trials escorted by the pilot vessel Limbara. | ||
4 | Tamburini, Federico | 26 Jan 1942 | 1345 | Taranto | 29 Jan 1942 | 1103 | Tripoli | Supply mission to Tripoli (154.3 tons of ammunition for German Army and 0.3 tons of auto parts). Uneventful. | ||
4b | Tamburini, Federico | 30 Jan 1942 | 1830 | Tripoli | 1 Feb 1942 | 1710 | Taranto | 1251 | Return trip from supply mission to Tripoli. | |
30 Jan 1942 | 2025 | (0) Ca. 15-20 miles North of Tripoli. | At 2025 hours, an aircraft was seen. As Millo dived, she was missed by three bombs which fell 300 meters away. | |||||||
D'Amato, Vincenzo | 8 Feb 1942 | 0832 | Taranto | 8 Feb 1942 | 1510 | Taranto | 64 | Trials. | ||
D'Amato, Vincenzo | 11 Feb 1942 | 0830 | Taranto | 11 Feb 1942 | 1302 | Taranto | 32 | Trials, escorted by tug Germanilello. | ||
D'Amato, Vincenzo | 19 Feb 1942 | 0846 | Taranto | 19 Feb 1942 | 1302 | Taranto | 39 | Exercises. | ||
5 | D'Amato, Vincenzo | 23 Feb 1942 | 2025 | Taranto | 25 Feb 1942 | 1245 | Taranto | 385 | Brief sortie to assist the damaged Tricheco, but was later recalled when Dandolo joined instead. | |
D'Amato, Vincenzo | 4 Mar 1942 | 0840 | Taranto | 4 Mar 1942 | 1145 | Taranto | Exercises. | |||
6 | D'Amato, Vincenzo | 5 Mar 1942 | 1351 | Taranto | 14 Mar 1942 | 1322 | Sunk | Patrolled southeast of Malta between 34°00'N and 34°20'N, and between 14°40'E and 15°00'E. On the night of 10/11th March, she was ordered to an area between 34°20'N and 34°40'N, and between 15°20'E and 15°40'E. On her return to Taranto, she was attacked by HMS P 34 and sunk. | ||
6 Mar 1942 | 0220 | (0) About 15 miles south of Cape Colonne. | At 0220 hours, Millo had just met a convoy (Liv, Tripolino and Sidamo escorted by the destroyer Stocco on passage from Taranto to Messina) and was, for a time, following it astern. The submarine observed a torpedo track which missed her 150 metres ahead and missed Stocco 50 metres astern. She alerted the destroyer that the enemy submarine was heard about 2 miles bearing 140°. Stocco turned back dropping four 100 kg-depth charges and six 30 kg-depth charges at 0241 hours before rejoining the convoy at 0250 hours. The "attack" was bogus, as no allied submarine operated in the area. | |||||||
14 Mar 1942 | 1318 (e) | At 1255 hours, the submarine HMS P 34 (later renamed HMS Ultimatum) sighted the conning tower of a submarine at 8,000 yards. At 1318 hours, the British submarine fired a salvo of four torpedoes at a distance of 2,200 yards. Two hit and the enemy boat sank. This was Ammiraglio Millo returning to Taranto after a patrol southeast of Malta. HMS P 34 picked up fourteen survivors, a fifteenth was picked by an Italian small boat. Fifty-six perished, including C.C. Vincenzo d'Amato and two officers. One torpedo was recovered intact on a beach. |
45 entries. 44 total patrol entries (6 marked as war patrols) and 5 events.