Battle of Cape Passero

Quand

12 oct. 1940

Type

Bataille

Coordonnées

36.25° N, 15.75° E

Description

1940 naval battle during World War II

Naval

oui

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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