Battle

Raid on Pula

1 Nov 1918 · 44.88° N, 13.81° E

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When
1 Nov 1918
Kind
Battle
Coordinates
44.88° N, 13.81° E
Description
maritime raid undertaken on 1 November 1918
Naval
yes
War
World War I

Raid on Pula

Part of the Mediterrainian Campaign of World War I

The raid on Pula was an Italian Navy operation conducted during the night of 31 October – 1 November 1918, at the end of World War I. It was carried out by frogmen Lieutenant Colonel Raffaele Rossetti and Raffaele Paolucci, who used the Mignatta human torpedo to sink the former flagship of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, the SMS Viribus Unitis.

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