Raid on Pula

The raid on Pula was an Italian Navy operation conducted during the night of 31 October – 1 November 1918, at the end of World War I. It was carried out by frogmen Lieutenant Colonel Raffaele Rossetti and Raffaele Paolucci, who used the Mignatta human torpedo to sink the former flagship of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, the SMS Viribus Unitis.