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Saturday 3 December 2016

Italian crown divided prize money earned in the war with Turkey according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1912-1913 no. 10

An item referred to a decision of the Italian crown dealing with dividing the prize money earned by the navy. Of the net revenues was 20% handed over to the fund for disabled of the merchant navy, 2/5 handed over to the government and 2/5 to the crews of the ships who actually captured Turkish ships. Within the crew of the latter ships received sailors 1 part, corporals 2 parts, sergeant petty officers 3, senior petty officers 5, midshipmen 1st class 8, lieutenants 2nd class 11, corvette captains 20, frigate captains 27 and captains 35 parts.