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Ferdinando Umberto Filippo Adalberto di Savoia, 3rd Duke of Genoa (Turin, 21 April 1884 - Bordighera, 24 June 1963), was a member of the House of Savoy, belonging to the Savoy-Genoa branch, and an Italian admiral.
Ferdinand of Savoy-Genoa was born in Turin in 1884, the eldest son of Tommaso of Savoy-Genoa and Isabella of Bavaria. His father was the nephew of Carlo Alberto di Savoia and Giovanni di Saxony. His mother was the granddaughter of Louis I of Bavaria and great-granddaughter of Charles IV of Spain and Francis I of the Two Sicilies.
The couple then had five other children: Filiberto (1895-1990), Maria Bona (1896-1971) Adalberto (1898-1982), Maria Adelaide (1904-1979) and Eugenio (1906-1996).
Entered the naval academy in 1901, he left it with the rank of ensign in 1904. In the same year, King Vittorio Emanuele III gave him the title of prince of Udine.[4] His military training took place aboard the protected cruisers Vespucci and Calabria, with which he sailed from Venice on 4 February 1905 and landed again on 3 February 1907 after having sailed around the world. Ferdinando was given the task, both on the Vespucci and on the Calabria, of drawing up the official logbook.
On the Calabria he visited Venezuela, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, passed the Strait of Magellan, went up the American continent up to San Francisco, then faced the Pacific Ocean touching Hawaii, Polynesia, Australia, the New Zealand, the Sunda Islands, the Philippines, Japan and China. Finally he sailed in the Indian Ocean touching Somalia and Eritrea, to then re-enter the Mediterranean and return to Venice.
Navy career
He took part in the Italian-Turkish war in 1912 and, as a captain, fought during the First World War commanding the destroyer Ippolito Nievo. For having occupied the Echinadi islands he was decorated with the military order of Savoy and with two silver medals for military valor.[6] In those years, in the Italian Concession of Tientsin, Via Principe di Udine was dedicated to him.
In May 1917 Ferdinando was chosen to lead the Italian war commission sent to the United States of America. The commission, which also included Guglielmo Marconi and several Italian political figures of the time, including Francesco Saverio Nitti, visited the United States to discuss future relations between the nations after the conflict. In November 1930 he represented his cousin Victor Emmanuel III at the coronation of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia. Ferdinando became Duke of Genoa on the death of his father Tommaso on 15 April 1931.
Having reached the rank of rear admiral in 1927 and admiral in 1934, Ferdinando became commander of the Upper Adriatic. In the sports arena he was one of the founders of the Italian Powerboat Federation, established in Milan in 1923, of which he was also the first president.
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