Enrico Millo (12 February 1865 – 14 June 1930) was an Italian admiral and politician. As a naval commander, he led a raid against the Ottoman Navy in the Dardanelles in 1912.[1]
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Life
editBorn in Chiavari, Province of Genoa, he was named guardiamarina in the Italian Regia Marina ("Royal Navy") in 1884. He participated as a navy officer in the campaigns of Kingdom of Italy in the Horn of Africa, and with the rank of capitano di vascello (ship-of-the-line captain) he led a raid by five Italian torpedo boats against the Ottoman fleet on 18 July 1912 during the Italo-Turkish War. After the expedition, he was named a senator of the Kingdom of Italy by King Victor Emmanuel III. Later he was Minister of the Navy in the Fourth Giolitti and First Salandra governments.
During World War I he held a command post[cleanup needed] in the Regia Marina, a branch of the Italian military. He was named military governor of Dalmatia following World War I.[2] From 1923 to 1925 he held a managerial position in the company that owned the Port of Naples.
He died in Rome in 1930.
Ships
editThe Cagni-class submarine Ammiraglio Millo, commissioned in 1941 during World War II, was named after him.
Notes
edit- ^ http://www.marina.difesa.it/palazzo/personaggi/millo.asp, Italian Navy website page dedicated to Enrico Millo, 2008
- ^ A. Rossi. The Rise of Italian Fascism: 1918–1922. New York, New York, USA: Routledge, 2010. P. 47.