The Action in the Strait of Otranto [also the Battle of the Strait of Otranto (1940)] was the destruction of an Italian convoy on 12 November 1940 during...
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of the Strait of Otranto can refer to: Battle of the Strait of Otranto (1917), a 1917 naval battle during World War I Action in the Strait of Otranto...
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blockade of the Strait of Otranto. The battle took place on 15 May 1917, and was the largest surface action in the Adriatic Sea during World War I. The Otranto...
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HMS Otranto was an armed merchant cruiser requisitioned by the British Admiralty when World War I began in 1914. Built before the war for the UK–Australia...
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Italian destroyer Nicola Fabrizi (category Minesweepers of the Italian Navy)
part in the Action in the Strait of Otranto in 1940. She also served in the Mediterranean campaign. After the fall of Fascist Italy and the Italian armistice...
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the Strait of Otranto. On 28 July, an Ottoman fleet of 128 ships, including 28 galleys, arrived near the Neapolitan city of Otranto. Many of the troops...
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in the Strait of Otranto and at least 84 Albanians, aged 3 months to 69 years, lost their lives. The emigrants had been part of a large migration of Albanians...
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the cruisers fought the Action in the Strait of Otranto after they intercepted an Italian convoy of four ships then sank them. In March 1941, again under...
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Italian destroyer Insidioso (category World War II shipwrecks in the Adriatic Sea)
action in the Battle of the Strait of Otranto in 1917. Reclassified as a torpedo boat in 1929, she was stricken in 1938. Reinstated in 1941, she was captured...
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Horthy staged a raid on the Otranto Barrage, an Allied naval blockade of the Strait of Otranto. The raid was a partial success but the raiders were nearly...
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Italian destroyer Angelo Bassini (category World War II shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea)
his actions during the Action in the Strait of Otranto in November 1940. World War II broke out in September 1939 with Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland...
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the Strait of Otranto. It is Capo d'Otranto (also called Punta Palascìa), located at 40° 7' north latitude and 18° 31' east longitude. To the north of Salento...
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consulship is not recorded in some sources, as Valerius is marked instead as consul ordinarius. Octavian crosses the Strait of Otranto and lands with an army...
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Italian destroyer Borea (1902) (category World War I shipwrecks in the Adriatic Sea)
she was sunk in 1917 during the Battle of the Strait of Otranto. Borea was laid down at the Cantiere Pattison (English: Pattison Shipyard) in Naples, Italy...
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SMS Csepel (category Shipwrecks in the South China Sea)
the action of 22 April 1918 in the Strait of Otranto, the ship helped to damage a pair of British destroyers. She was transferred to Italy in 1920 in...
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SMS Saida (category World War I cruisers of Austria-Hungary)
Saida took part in the Battle of the Strait of Otranto, the largest naval action in the course of the war in the Adriatic. Saida was tasked with provoking...
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HMS Ajax (22) (category Battle of the River Plate)
neutralized, the British force divided up the targets and sank all four of the Italian merchant ships. This action took place near the Strait of Otranto (see...
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Italian destroyer Giovanni Acerbi (category World War II shipwrecks in the Indian Ocean)
night of 14–15 May 1917, the Battle of the Strait of Otranto began when the Austro-Hungarian Navy staged a two-pronged attack against the Otranto Barrage...
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fleet left the Dardanelles Strait. Soon Venice had been forced out of almost all of the Morea. In 1716, the Turks goal was the capture of the western Greek...
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Italian destroyer Carlo Mirabello (category Cruisers of the Regia Marina)
World War I, seeing action in the largest surface action of that campaign, the Battle of the Strait of Otranto, in May 1917. During the interwar period,...
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Italian destroyer Impavido (1913) (category World War I destroyers of Italy)
in the Battle of the Strait of Otranto. Reclassified as a torpedo boat in 1929, she was stricken in 1937. Impavido was laid down at the Cantiere Pattison...
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Western European Union Operation Sharp Guard in the Strait of Otranto on July 16. On October 9, 1992, the Security Council passed Resolution 781, establishing...
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Miklós Horthy (category Recipients of the Military Order of the Cross of the Eagle, Class I)
sub-lieutenant in the Austro-Hungarian Navy in 1896 and attained the rank of rear admiral by 1918. He participated in the Battle of the Strait of Otranto and ascended...
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Italian destroyer Simone Schiaffino (category World War II shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea)
the Strait of Otranto. Reclassified as a torpedo boat in 1929, she took part in the Mediterranean campaign of World War II until she was sunk in 1941...
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Joseph Watt (category Recipients of the Silver Medal of Military Valor)
achieved the award during service in the Strait of Otranto and as a result of his meritorious service also received the French Croix de Guerre and the Italian...
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SMS Balaton (section Battle of the Strait of Otranto)
participated in several unsuccessful raids on the Otranto Barrage in 1917, although she sank an ammunition ship during the Battle of the Strait of Otranto. She...
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on Italians anchored at Taranto, inspiring the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 12 November Strait of Otranto – British and Australian ships engage and...
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Italian destroyer Indomito (1912) (category World War I destroyers of Italy)
seeing action in the Battle of the Strait of Otranto in 1917. Reclassified as a torpedo boat in 1929, she was stricken in 1937 and subsequently scrapped...
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Meanwhile, X-Force cruisers attacked an Italian convoy (Battle of the Strait of Otranto). This force had three cruisers (HMS Ajax, Orion and HMAS Sydney)...
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In late September, the Allies established the Otranto Barrage, an attempt to blockade the entrance to the Adriatic Sea at the Strait of Otranto. In early...
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