Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I muri i te whakatairanga ki te kaitautoko i te 9 o Noema 1936, i tohua ia hei rangatira moana o te Dodecanese, me te tari matua i Rhodes. I te 7 o Poutu-te-rangi 1938 i whakatairangahia ia ki te Kaihauturu Admiral me te whakahau i te 1st Cruiser Division, i uru ki te
te wikitoria o Albania i te Paenga-whāwhā o te tau 1939; i te tau 1940 ka riro ia hei rangatira mo nga ope moana katoa i Sardinia, he pou i mau tonu ia i te wa o te urunga mai o Itari ki te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao. I te Oketopa 1940 i tohua ia hei rangatira moana o Albania, me te tari matua i Durres, e whakahau ana i nga ope moana i te Pakanga Greco-Italy me te whakaekenga o Yugoslavia. Mo ana pukenga whakahaere i roto i te whakahaere o nga tauranga Albanian, i tino whakamoemiti a Benito Mussolini me te whakawhiwhia ki te Knight's Cross of the Military Order of Savoy.