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
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
		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.

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