Artigliere_AWM-305865.jpg

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Starboard side view of the Italian destroyer Artigliere , stopped, abandoned and on fire forward after the Battle of Cape Passero. The Italian Navy had attempted to intercept an eastbund convoy from Malta on the night of 11/12 October 1940 with destroyers and torpedo boats which ran into the Royal Navy covering force which included the light cruiser HMS Ajax (22), the first radar-equipped RN ship in the Mediterranean Sea. Ajax stopped Artigliere , which surrendered and was scuttled on the next day by the heavy cruiser HMS York (90).

Date

12 October 1940

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305865

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