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Battle of Cape Matapan

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199: 166: 2059: 187: 2283: 151: 1517: 1594: 137: 1696:. The bulk of the Allied forces detected the Italian squadron on radar shortly after 22:00, and were able to close without being detected. The Italian ships had no radar and could not detect British ships by means other than sight; Italian thinking did not envisage night actions and their main gun batteries were not prepared for action. At 22:20 they spotted the Allied squadron, but thought them to be Italian ships. The battleships 1411: 48: 1496:
joined the Italian cruisers and immediately opened fire on the shadowing Allied cruisers. She fired 94 rounds in 29 salvos from a distance of 25,000 yd (23,000 m), all well aimed, but again with an excessive dispersal of her salvos. (Another 11 rounds got jammed in the barrels.) The Allied
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to attack the merchant convoys supplying British forces. As always with Enigma, the intelligence breakthrough was concealed from the Italians by ensuring there was a plausible, visible reason for the Allies to have detected and intercepted their fleet. In this case, it was a carefully directed
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without direct effect, but the required manoeuvring made it difficult for the Italian ships to maintain their pursuit. The Italian ships fired 152, 100 and 90 mm guns and also 37, 20 and 13.2 mm guns when at close range, repelling the attack, while one of the two
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to lose electric power and drift to a stop. The torpedo was apparently dropped by Lieutenant Grainger Williams. Williams was subsequently awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, primarily for the part he played in bringing about the ensuing naval engagement.
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For reasons of secrecy, code breakers at the GC&CS were very rarely informed of the operational effects of their work, but their impact on the Battle of Cape Matapan was an exception. A few weeks after the battle, Admiral Cunningham visited
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described the Battle of Matapan as "Italy's greatest defeat at sea, subtracting from its order of battle a cruiser division, but the battle was hardly decisive." The British in the Mediterranean lost the heavy cruiser
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The Allied ships took on survivors but left the scene in the morning, fearing Axis air strikes. Admiral Cunningham ordered a signal to be made on the Merchant Marine emergency band. This signal was received by the
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and his staff, with a positive impact on morale: Mavis Batey, one of the code breakers, remembers: "Our sense of elation knew no bounds when Cunningham himself came down in person to thank and congratulate us".
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were able to close to 3,800 yards (3,500 m) – point blank range for battleship guns – at which point they opened fire. The Allied searchlights (including those under the command of Midshipman
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to Alexandria as a prize was considered, but daylight was approaching, and it was thought that the danger of enemy air attack was too high. British boarding parties seized a number of much-needed
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for the first time. The first message, the cryptic "Today’s the day minus three," was followed three days later by a second message reporting the sailing of an Italian battle fleet comprising one
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used by the British to defeat the Italians at Matapan. Hyde was found guilty of libelling the dead, but evidence of GC&CS involvement was not made public at that time. In 1980, the
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cruisers, until then unaware of the presence of a battleship, withdrew, suffering slight damage from 381 mm (15.0 in) shell fragments. A series of photographs taken from HMS
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The Admiralty Account of the Naval War in the Mediterranean (London, His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1943), where the detection of the Italian force is credited to "one of
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squadron from Crete took place between 19:36 and 19:50. Admiral Iachino deployed his ships in three columns and used smoke, searchlights, and a heavy barrage to protect
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As they had not reduced the distance significantly after an hour of pursuit, the Italian cruisers broke off the chase, turning to the north-west on a course to rejoin
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s 90 mm (3.5-inch) anti-aircraft batteries, with the loss of the three-man crew. Italian losses were up to 2,303 sailors, most of them from
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As a further deception, Admiral Cunningham made a surreptitious exit after dark from a golf club in Alexandria to avoid being seen boarding his
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had only one operational battleship and no aircraft carriers. In fact the Royal Navy had three battleships, while the damaged British
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s bridge remarked to a companion, "What's that battleship over there? I thought ours were miles away." The Italians eavesdropped on
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was demonstrated by Mavis Batey to the Admiral in charge of naval history, were Italian official records corrected. In 1966,
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shortly after 04:00. The only known Italian reaction after the shocking surprise was a fruitless torpedo charge by
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until about an hour after the order had been given by Iachino, officially due to communication problems, while
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There is still controversy in Italy regarding the orders given by the Italian Admiral Angelo Iachino to the
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and could not take any evasive action. This blow knocked out five boilers and the main steam line, causing
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and a number of destroyers—sailed from Greek waters for a position south of Crete. Admiral Cunningham with
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in the same period (26–31 March 1941), but while the Royal Navy lost four heavy cruisers during the war (
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Cunningham's force, which had been attempting to rendezvous with Pridham-Wippell, launched an attack by
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Sadkovich, James J. (October 1988). "Re-evaluating Who Won the Italo-British Naval Conflict, 1940–2".
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Unaware of Cunningham's pursuit, a squadron of cruisers and destroyers was ordered to return and help
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came to recover them. Allied casualties during the battle were a single torpedo bomber shot down by
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fired three salvos in return. These fell short but did cause the Italians to make a course change.
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In late March 1941, as British ships of the Mediterranean Fleet covered troop movements to Greece,
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A second aerial attack at 15:09 surprised the Italians; Lieutenant-Commander John Dalyell-Stead (
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at 12:00, depriving Iachino of any advantage of surprise. The Italian admiral also learned that
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s radar picked up a ship six miles to port, apparently dead in the water; she was the crippled
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included similar allegations about a spy called 'Cynthia' who obtained a codebook. In 1974,
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Included: Force A, 14th Destroyer Flotilla, 10th Destroyer Flotilla (of Force C), Force B,
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firing another 189 armour piercing shells, but the Italians experienced trouble with their
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Batey, Mavis (2011). "Chapter 6: Breaking Italian Naval Enigma". In Smith, Michael (ed.).
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After the defeat at Cape Matapan, the Italian Admiral Iachino wrote that the battle had
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group encountered Admiral Pridham-Wippell's cruiser group south of the Greek island of
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of the 13th Flotilla. The fleet also included most of the Italian heavy cruiser force:
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s signal that she had sighted an unknown unit and was going to investigate. At 10:55,
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The Italian fleet did not venture into the Eastern Mediterranean again until the
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side. The Italians had been incorrectly informed by the Germans that the British
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before releasing a torpedo which hit her outer port propeller and caused 4,000
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The Italian fleet was led by Admiral Iachino's flagship, the modern battleship
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showing Italian salvos falling amongst Allied warships was published by
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s crew was taken off and she was sunk by torpedoes from the destroyers
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Fraccaroli, Aldo (January 2001). "Lo combattimento navale di Gaudo".
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withdraws from the battle area after being torpedoed by RN aircraft.
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to face another sortie during the operations off Greece and Crete.
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two months later and it did not come out in full force until the
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After the interception and decryption of Italian signals by the
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See the report in the official Admiralty publication of 1943,
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spotted the British cruiser squadron at 06:35. At 07:55, the
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At the same time, there was a failure of intelligence on the
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s 40 mm guns in the direction of the British warships.
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firing upon the Allied cruisers during the action off Gavdos
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On 27 March, Vice-Admiral Pridham-Wippell—with the cruisers
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firing 204 armour-piercing and 10 explosive shells and
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left Alexandria on the same day to meet the cruisers.
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was finished off by a torpedo from the destroyer HMS
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Battle of Matapan
Battle of the Mediterranean

Cape Matapan
Mediterranean Sea
35°21′00″N 22°00′00″E / 35.35000°N 22.00000°E / 35.35000; 22.00000
United Kingdom
Australia
Italy
Andrew Cunningham
Angelo Iachino
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Battle of the Mediterranean
Vado
Malta
Club Run
Espero
Mers-el-Kébir
Calabria
Cape Spada
Hurry
Cape Passero
MB8
Taranto
Otranto
White
Cape Spartivento
Excess

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