Console Generale Liuzzi was an Italian Liuzzi-class ocean-going submarine of the Regia Marina, launched in 1939 and sunk in 1940 by Royal Navy destroyers.
The four submarines of the Liuzzi-class were armed with a single 100 mm (4 in) deck gun, four 13.2 mm (0.52 in) machine guns in twin mounts and eight 21 in (53 cm) torpedo tubes, with four reloads for a total of twelve torpedoes carried.
[3] Her commanding officer at the time of the attack was Capitano di Corvetta Lorenzo Bezzi.
He received the Italian Navy Gold Medal in recognition of the choice to go down with his ship after ordering his crew to abandon the sinking submarine.
[4] Even if the submarine was destroyed without sinking any enemy ships,[5] it is remembered because of the sacrifice of its commander Lorenzo Bezzi.