This is what this is about: a destroyer built for Japan, given to Italy during WWI and taken over by the Germans in WW2.

Thanks, Historynerd, though the link's broken. (You misplaced a parenthesis.)

At any rate, it's kind of ironic that both Kawakaze I and Kawakaze II were sunk during an ambush. Then again, Kawakaze I/Audace/TA 20 outlived her successor by a little over a year.

AdventZero said:

Thanks, Historynerd, though the link's broken. (You misplaced a parenthesis.)

At any rate, it's kind of ironic that both Kawakaze I and Kawakaze II were sunk during an ambush. Then again, Kawakaze I/Audace/TA 20 outlived her successor by a little over a year.

Yeah, sorry, but I still can't get the grasp of the format with which you're supposed to make a link... But the right link is in the page you end up in, so...

I still need to snoop around from time to time as well. No harm done. (lol) You almost got it right, though. It should look something like this:

"This is what this is about: a destroyer built for Japan, given to Italy during WWI and taken over by the Germans in WW2":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_destroyer_Audace_(1916).

And you get this:

This is what this is about: a destroyer built for Japan, given to Italy during WWI and taken over by the Germans in WW2.

For some odd reason, if the parenthesis is at the end of it, it gets ignored and doesn't parse properly.

For linking it is probably better to place the web address between [] to prevent stuff like the first comment.

So you get:

• This is the link

Instead of:

• This is the link

A little trivia, Audace was the first Italian ship to enter Trieste at the end of World War I, when this city (inhabited by Italians but part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, thus one of the main symbols of Italian irredentism) was finally united with Italy. The pier where she moored on that occasion was named "Molo Audace" (Audace Quay) in her honor, and mantains this name to this day. One of Audace's anchors became part of the "Faro della Vittoria" (Victory Lighthouse), a monument lighthouse built near Trieste to celebrate the victory in World War I and to commemorate the fallen at sea.

A bizarre twist of fate is that Audace, the first Italian ship to enter Trieste at the end of WWI, was also the last Italian ship to leave Trieste on 9 September 1943, during WWII, after the Italian Armistice, just before the Germans occupied the city (she was to sail south towards an Allied controlled port, but engine breakdowns forced her to go to Venice instead, where she was captured by the Germans). Trieste wouldn't be de facto under Italian control until 1954, as after 9/9/1943 she was first under German occupation as part of the Adriatischen Kustenland, then under brief Jugoslav occupation, and finally form a "Free State of Trieste" until finally reunited with Italy in 1954.