Real "relics" that tell us the story of Shipping ...
The Captain Alberto Bertacca during his long career has succeeded in gathering and perfectly preserving a large number of instruments and objects through which we can retrace the fundamental stages of boating in the last centuries.
Picture by Giorgio Michetti (1912-2019) which represents the emblem of our Agency.
These memorabilia, of the famous "Panerai", are a pleasant remembrance of the Marquis Durand de la Penne fon Captain Alberto Bertacca, who was still a child, when he became his apprentice along the water front of Punta Bianca (Bocca di Magra), taking part in dives with a suite made to measure and with an ARO self-contained breathing apparatus.
Painter Domenico Gavarrone
Brigantino L'Ammirabile Colombo - 1851
The Hydrographer of the Navy was pleased to present this chart n.832, as a commemorative gift, on the occasion of the Bicentenary of the UK Hydrographic Office to the Shipping and Port Agency Captain Alberto Bertacca.
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