The Archive · 1939

Fatal Accident During Torpedo Practice

Rome, Feb. 4.

Two Italian seamen were killed and another was injured in an explosion of a torpedo fired from the torpedo boat Deza during naval exercises near Naples on Friday, the Government announced today.

"During naval exercises in the Gulf of Naples on Friday," an official communique said, *a torpedo struck the net of the Deza, explode the explosion, an auxiliary steam engine on the torpedo boat was broken, causing steam to escape from a dynamo, This resulted in two deaths from burns. Another man was injured."—United Press.

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