<Li> November 1, 1918: In the last days of World War I, Croatian Rear admiral Janko Vuković, the first day he was appointed fleet commander, chose to go down with his flagship SMS Viribus Unitis in Pula harbor as Italian frogmen sunk it with two 200kg - mines . </Li> <Li> November 23, 1939 . HMS Rawalpindi, a British armed merchant cruiser (a converted passenger ship) encountered the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau north of the Faroe Islands . Her captain, Edward Coverley Kennedy, despite being hopelessly outgunned, ordered an attack . He went down with his ship . </Li> <Li> June 27, 1940 . When Italian submarine Console Generale Liuzzi was forced to surface by British destroyers in the Mediterranean, her commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander Lorenzo Bezzi, ordered his crew to abandon ship and then scuttled the submarine, going down with it . </Li> <Li> October 21, 1940 . During the Battle of Harmil Island, Italian destroyer Francesco Nullo was fatally damaged by HMS Kimberley . Her commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander Costantino Borsini, chose to go down with his ship; seaman Vincenzo Ciaravolo, his attendant, chose to follow him . </Li>

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