Anyone help?

[Jan Steer]

I have an unused Italian cap ribbon, in mint condition, dating from around WW1 for "Emmanuele Filiberto R.N.". Does anyone know anything about this one?
I was handed this and other odds and ends, when a boy, by an elderly neighbour who had served in submarines at this period; M class etc and "Titania" and so on. Therefore am I right to assume that this was a sub depot ship or am I entirely on the wrong tack?
Cheers
Jan

[Batstiger]

I can't help you much Jan but there was a First world war 1 Battleship called the Emanuele Filiberto.

Bob.

[Jan Steer]

Tks very much for your help. It has got to be the same ship hasn't it?
Jan

[Stan.J]

In 1917, The British Admiralty suspended construction work on four K-boats and revised plans to turn them into "Submarine monitors". They became known as M-boats and featured a single 12" gun mounted in the front part of an extended conning tower. They had a complement of 65
The gun could be fired from periscope depth within 30 seconds of a target being sighted, or in 20 seconds if the submarine was surfaced..
The M1 was the only M-boat to see war service.
Of the three M-class boats completed, two were lost in accidents, M1 in a collision with the freighter "Vidar" in november 1925.

[tonclass]

Jan, 'RN' is the Italian version of our 'HMS'.... 'TITANIA' was a Sub Depot Ship.

There were at least 2 'EF' s One built around 1895 and one built around 1937

[bob shayler]

Hi Jan,
As Bob has already mentioned, the first EF was a Battleship launched in Sept. 1897 and finally stricken in March 1920. She was one of two in the Ammiraglio di Saint Bon class and displacement was 9,940 tons. They were originnaly intended to be scrapped in 1914-15 but were reprieved at the outbreak of the Great War.
The second EF was a cruiser of the Duca D'Aosta class launched in 1934, completed July 1935. She was taken over by the USSR in March 1949 and re-named Stalingrad and later Kerch. She was finnally discarded in the late 1950's.
Only a guess but I would think your cap ribon came from the earlie EF as the later cruiser appears to have the class name added as a suffix to her name,
regards,
Bob

[bob shayler]

A colour plate of the original E.F., (the ship didn't really float up hill, it's the way I scan them),
regards
Bob

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[bob shayler]

Hi Jan,
This is a photo of the later EF and a line drawing of her sister ship,
regards,Bob