 During this campaign, he again narrowly escaped shipwreck due to a storm aboard the 74-gun ship "Ercole".On 12 June 1768, he was raised to "Capitano delle Navi", full admiral of the sailing fleet.When the Russian fleet under Alexei Orlov arrived in the Mediterranean in 1770 as part of the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774, Emo led a Venetian squadron to a cruise in the Aegean, to protect Venetian and French subjects and commercial interests in the area.