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second life, Laterza
second life, Laterza
second life, Laterza
second life, Laterza
second life, Laterza
second life, Laterza
second life, Laterza
second life, Laterza
second life, Laterza
second life, Laterza
second life, Laterza
second life, Laterza
second life, Laterza
second life, Laterza
second life, Laterza
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+39 328 104 1238

Address:
via per Santeramo, 74014 Laterza, Italy

The Second Battle of Sirte was a naval engagement in which the escorting warships of a British convoy to Malta frustrated a much more powerful Regia Marina squadron. The British convoy was composed of four merchant ships escorted by four light cruisers, one anti-aircraft cruiser, and 17 destroyers. The Italian force comprised a battleship, two heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, and eight destroyers. Despite the initial British success at warding off the Italian squadron, the battle delayed the convoy's planned arrival before dawn, which exposed it to intense air attacks that sank all four merchant ships and one of the escorting destroyers in the following days. The battle occurred on 22 March 1942 in the Mediterranean, north of the Gulf of Sidra and southeast of Malta, during the Second World War.
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