On 1 November 1918 two sailors of the Italian "Regia Marina", Raffaele Paolucci and Raffaele Rossetti, rode a primitive manned torpedo (nicknamed the "Mignatta" or "leech") into the Austro-Hungarian naval base at Pola. Using limpet mines, they then sank the anchored "Viribus Unitis", with considerable loss of life, as well as the freighter "Wien". The French navy commandeered the new dreadnought , which they took to France and later used it for target practice in the Atlantic, where it was destroyed.