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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 254, 24 October 1905, Page 6

Prince Ferdinando of Savoy, cousin of Queen Margherita and nephew of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, will visit Auckland shortly on the Italian cruiser Calabria. He is a cousin of the famous Duke d'Abruzzi, who visted Auckland as commanding officer of the cruiser Liguria. But this is Ferdinando's first cruise into the Pacific, or anywhere out side of European waters. He is 21 years old, a son of Admiral Prince Thomas of Genoa, and this cruise of the Calabria is being made expressly for his benefit. He fills the position of First Lieutenant, and. . stands his watch like the other young officers on board ,(says a Sydney'paper). When Prince Ferdinando boarded ,the Calabria at Venice last February orders were I given to Commander Marengo to enj circle the globe for the instruction of the royal sailor. So the cruiser.went down into the Mediterranean and out into the South American coast. Visits were mad. at Monte Video and Buenos Ayres at Punta Arenas, in the Straits of Magellan, and at Valparaiso and all the principal ports in the Pacific' From Acapulco the cruiser proceeded to San Francisco, and thence was to make for Bonolulu, Fiji, New Zealand, and Australia subsequently returning to Venice via th*. Far East.