RN Leonardo da Vinci - Highest Scoring Non-German Submarine 

I'd love to see a video on the RN Toricelli

I always thought the best part of an Italian sub was the salami

​@@aquateenchris sub - lami 😉

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We sink thousands of schooners every day in Australia...it's a large pub beer glass of 425ml, or around 15 imperial ounces.

Well ... That's really bad Seamanship. I wouldn't have done it. I'm Italian Sir .

Sounds about par for the course, for WW2 nations. Americans did try to attack German subs that were rescuing survivors. This caused the German high command's directive to not attempt rescue at all, which was brought up in Nürnberg, but IIRC it was quickly dismissed when Dönitz (I think?) retorted that they couldn't risk their crews because "laws of warfare only applied to them"

Wouldn't sinking an enemy troop ship also have a high chance of saving hundreds of your nations soldiers, as you are depriving the enemy of a large amount of supplies and trained personnel. It is hard to predict ahead of time if your enemy is using the ship to also carry POWs and refugees, as in this case.

@@shiibii6360 You're quite right but to kill one's own men and innocent civilians as a result of a wilful decision must weigh much more heavily on one's conscience than holding back and letting off an enemy who might attack you later. Mine was just an emotional reaction against the tragedy of war that includes the unintentional killing of one's own people. From a 'hard-nosed' perspective I acknowledge that this could seem too pacifist.

“This revisionist history convincingly argues that the Regia Marina Italiana (the Royal Italian Navy) has been neglected and maligned in assessments of its contributions to the Axis effort in World War II. After all, Italy was the major Axis player in the Mediterranean, and it was the Italian navy and air force, with only sporadic help from their German ally, that stymied the British navy and air force for most of the thirty-nine months that Italy was a belligerent. It was the Royal Italian Navy that provided the many convoys that kept the Axis war effort in Africa alive by repeatedly braving attack by aircraft, submarine, and surface vessels. If doomed by its own technical weaknesses and Ultra (the top-secret British decoding device), the Italian navy still fought a tenacious and gallant war; and if it did not win that war, it avoided defeat for thirty-nine, long, frustrating months.”