 the MAS torpedo boat of Luigi Rizzo that sank the battleship and the human torpedo of Raffaele Rossetti that sank the battleship in 1918.On 6 August 1914 an Anglo-French naval agreement was signed, giving France leadership of naval operations in the Mediterranean.The remaining British Mediterranean forces - one armoured cruiser, four light cruisers, and 16 destroyers - were placed under the control of the French Mediterranean Fleet, and bases at both Gibraltar and Malta were opened to the French.