Italy WW1 RN Emanuele Filiberto Battleship Patriotic Medal 1906 by Johnson

Italy: WW1 Commemorative medal of the Italian
Battleship RN Emanuele Filiberto. 
With the personal motto of Emanuele Filiberto: 
"Conduntur non Contunduntur" (To Unite, Not to 
Destroy). 
Dated 1906 (year of the major fleet maneuvers 
under the command of Vice Admiral Alfonso di 
Brochetti in the Ionian Sea).
Signed SJ (Stefano Johnson).
RN Emanuele Filiberto was one of the two 
pre-dreadnought battleships of the Ammiraglio di 
Saint Bon class built for the Italian Navy in the 
1890s. 
She was launched in Sep. 1897 but was only 
completed in Apr. 1902. 
RN Emanuele Filiberto participated in the Italo-
Turkish War of 1911–1912 and saw action during 
the campaigns in North Africa, Rhodes and the 
Dodecanese. She served during WW1 but she 
saw no combat action. 
The ship was decommissioned and broken up for 
scrap in 1920.
A scarce medal.

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1906 - pre World War 1 1914 -1918 

Item 100% original

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