Battle of the Campobasso Convoy
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Battle of the Campobasso Convoy
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The Battle of the Campobasso Convoy was a naval engagement between three British Royal Navy destroyers and the Regia Marina Spica-class torpedo boat Perseo which took place off Cape Bon in the Mediterranean Sea on the night of 3/4 May 1943. The Italians were escorting the 3,566-gross register ton (GRT) freighter Campobasso to Tunisia. The ships were illuminated by star shells, east of Kelibia in Cape Bon; Perseo attacked the British ships with torpedoes then turned to the north-west. Campobasso
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Campobasso_Convoy
date created:
2013-06-11T15:49:48Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T01:08:32Z
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