Battle of Cape Passero

When

12 Oct 1940

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

36.25° N, 15.75° E

Description

1940 naval battle during World War II

Naval

yes

War

World War II

1940 battle of World War II

The Action off Cape Passero, was a naval engagement in the Second World War between the British light cruiser HMS Ajax, three torpedo boats and seven destroyers of the Italian Regia Marina, in the central Mediterranean, to the south-east of Sicily, on the night of 11/12 October 1940.

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• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “bataille du cap Passero”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Бой у мыса Пассеро на Средиземном море после очередного британского конвоя на остров Мальта между британским лёгким крейсером HMS Ajax (1934) и семью…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• World War II1 Sep 1939 · World war · Deaths 75,000,000