The Battle of MatapanAccount of the first major sea battle of World War II, in which the British defeated the Italian fleet off the coast of Greece in 1941. |
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | 13 |
LIST OF DIAGRAMS IS ACKNOWLEDGMENT | 17 |
COMPASS DIAGRAM | 18 |
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1st Cruiser Division 20 knots 8-inch cruiser Abruzzi action stations Admiral Ajax Albacores Alexandria Alfieri altered course astern Barham Barnard Battle of Matapan battleship Bolzano bombers bombing British battlefleet British cruisers Captain Carducci carrier Cattaneo's Commander Commander-in-Chief convoys Crete crews Cunningham damaged dark Destroyer Flotilla dusk enemy ships escort fighters Fiume Fleet Air Arm fleet gunnery officer flying Formidable's aircraft four cruisers four destroyers Fulmars Gavdo Greyhound Griffin gunfire harbour Havock hour Iachino Italian battleships Italian cruisers Italian Fleet Jervis light line ahead Mack Maleme Malta Mediterranean minutes later Naval night action northward opened fire operations ordered Orion Pola port bow position Pridham Pridham-Wippell radar range received reconnaissance Royal Air Force salvoes Sansonetti screen searchlight signal smoke speed Squadron starboard bow starboard side steaming steering stopped striking force Stuart Suda Bay Swordfish torpedo torpedo striking TRENTO Trieste Valiant Vice-Admiral Vittorio Veneto Warspite Warspite's Wippell Zara