Balbo's North Atlantic Flight in 1933 
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Drifter Giuseppe Biglieri

Launched on 2 October 1924 with the name Merluzzo

Made at the shipyard of the Deutsche Werft in Hamburg and destined for the Italian Society of Fisheries and Subproducts. It was part of a group of twenty-four ocean pyropes, ordered in the first post-war period from Italy to five different German shipyards, as reparation for war damages.

It was bought by the Royal Navy in 1931 and transformed into a minesweeper in 1932 with the name Giuseppe Biglieri (a lieutenant of the Regia Marina vessel slaughtered with ten other sailors of the Ettore Fieramosca May 25, 1881]).

During the Cruise area of ??the Decennale, it was used as a support ship for the flight with the twin Matteucci.

In 1936 it was sold to a private company, which renamed it Murena; reacquired by the Royal Navy, from 1938 it was classified as a gunship. Scattered on April 8, 1941 in the port of Massawa, it was rescued by the British and reused by the Royal Naval Patrol Service as a minesweeper from 1942 to 1946 under the name HMS Biglieri.

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Drifter Giuseppe Biglieri
Drifter Giuseppe Biglieri