Battle of Cape Spada

When

19 Jul 1940

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

35.69° N, 23.72° E

Description

1940 naval battle during the battle of the Mediterranean in Second World War

Naval

yes

War

World War II

1940 naval battle of World War II

The Battle of Cape Spada was a naval battle between the Royal Navy and the Regia Marina during the Battle of the Mediterranean in the second World War. It took place during the morning of 19 July 1940 off Cape Spada, the north-western extremity of Crete.

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• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Cape Spada: Sydney D48 and five destroyers sink the Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni.2”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “bataille du cap Spada au large de la Crète”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Бой у мыса Спада между двумя итальянскими лёгкими крейсерами, «Бартоломео Коллеони» и «Джованни делле Банде Нере» и английской эскадрой в составе лёгкого…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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