Here are two versions of the same photo taken during the Mincio the service as the Royal Italian Navy gunboat. In 1915 the boats were requisitioned all of the shipping company for Lake Garda armed and used along the border with the Hapsburg Empire, who was at the top of the lake.
in 1916 were returned to all except the Mincio and the Garda who were armed with naval guns from La Spezia and continued until 1918, their service. The Mincio was armed with three 57 mm guns that you see one at the stern and two on the sides of the turret and 4 new Fiat 1914 model machine guns that can be seen positioned along the sides.
The crew of the civilian boats lake was drafted and placed under the command of naval officers who see themselves dressed in white uniform. The main base was in Peschiera del Garda while that was advanced in the bay of Malcesine dream. The main activity was patrolling the border along with Mas and the bombardment of the Austrian positions on the slopes of Mount Altissimo.
At the end of the Great War, the fleet of lake Garda and the Mincio was disarmed after defending the sacred boundaries Homeland returned to his usual duties of tug lake continued to ship goods towing barges and the typical two-masted boats on the lake and down the two sides of Verona and Brescia. After the construction of the road
Garda in the '30s that facilitated the freight traffic by road are the Mincio in a new job in the service of military unit RAV Desenzano.
The Mincio The gunboat, which is the last still flows through the lake of garda. The lake has been demolished.
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