![]() None of these cruisers would survive the war. Thirty-five kilometers to the east was another group of twelve more destroyers and the six heavy cruisers - Zara, Fiume, Gorizia, Pola, Bolzano and Trento. ![]() Immediately with the merchantmen were eight destroyers and four torpedo boats. The next day they were joined by their escorts from the Italian Naval Base in Taranto which was divided into three groups. On July 6th an Italian convoy of four merchant ships left Naples, heading south across the Mediterranean to the Libyan Port of Benghazi. On this particular day each side’s convoys intersected. Italy had a north/south convoy run, across the Mediterranean, between the Italian mainland and its Colony of Libya, in North Africa, while the British had convoys running east, and west, to the British Colony of Malta, from Gibralter, and Alexandria, Egypt. The Battle occurred 30 miles to the east of Punta Stilo, which is the “toe” of the Italian Peninsula, on July 9, 1940.įrom the beginning of the Italian entry into the war it was obvious that the two Navies were going to clash. This week, seventy years ago, the British Royal Navy met the Regia Marina Italia in what is known as the Battle of Calabria, or to the Italians, the Battle Punta Stilo.
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