Former Italian Battleship Giulio Cesare sinks today.

[Gargantua]

An Italian Battleship sinks with a bunch of Communists on board.

Tragedy? Or Triumph? :P

[Witt]

I am going to my grave believing it was  unemployed Italian frogmen sightseeing in the Black Sea(with explosives).
It was a poor Battleship by WW2 standards, but it was ours!

[Gargantua]

I swear half of the conversation on this site is just between you and me lol!

You should just PM me your phone number so we can talk.

[Witt]

But then I would hear your voice and it might be over just like that!
I am English(when I want to be), so language is important to me.
It has been quiet on here  of late.

I love you……

I am waiting!

[Witt]

That is the first and last time I am Princess Leia to your Han Solo!

[Noll]

Old and fashinating story.
The Frogmen believers say that the attack is very similar to Alexandria’s one.

[Witt]

Hi Noll. Alexandria’s one: what’s that?

[ABWorsham4]

Thanks for the story, never knew this story. Love the frogman story.

[Witt]

Thank you, Worsham. I first found out about it in the Osprey: Italian Battleships.
The Giulio Cesare was certainly not a pretty ship, unlike the later Vittorio Veneto Class, or my favourite, the Bismarck, but still a feat to survive the war.
Garg did an article on Italian Frogmen earlier this year. They were something special.

[Noll]

Wittman, the thing that happened to our battleship is very similar to what we did at Alexandria. That’s why some historians claims it was an Italian operation.

http://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impresa_di_Alessandria

[Witt]

Thanks Noll. I guessed it was something like that. Should have realised it had to be Alexandria. Where else would our frogmen have sunk anything?
I forgot it was two Battleships that were sunk.
Do you subscribe to the Italian connection in the Novorossiysk incident?
It is nice to think it could be true.

[Noll]

@wittmann:

Thanks Noll. I guessed it was something like that. Should have realised it had to be Alexandria. Where else would our frogmen have sunk anything?
I forgot it was two Battleships that were sunk.
Do you subscribe to the Italian connection in the Novorossiysk incident?
It is nice to think it could be true.

I seriously don’t know and I can’t tell. I’d like to think so tho’.