The Red Sea Flotilla (Flottiglia del mar rosso) was part of the Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy) based at Massawa in the colony of Italian Eritrea, part...
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The Caspian Flotilla (Russian: Каспийская флотилия, romanized: Kaspiyskaya flotiliya) is the flotilla of the Russian Navy in the Caspian Sea. Established...
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Regia Marina (section Red Sea)
counterattack in East Africa and the threat posed by the Red Sea Flotilla disappeared. Much of the Red Sea Flotilla was destroyed by hostile action during the first...
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Royal Netherlands Navy operating in the Dutch East Indies and the Red Sea Flotilla of the Italian Regia Marina operating from Massawa. Axis naval forces...
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remnants the Red Sea Flotilla at Massawa. By the end of 1940, the British had gained control of East African coastal routes and the Red Sea; Italian forces...
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Attack on Convoy BN 7 (category History of the Red Sea)
naval engagement in the Red Sea during the Second World War between a British force defending convoyed merchant ships and a flotilla of Italian destroyers...
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Northern Fleet (redirect from Kola Flotilla)
White Sea Flotilla (Беломорская флотилия, Belomorskaya flotiliya) in March 1920, based in Arkhangelsk. The White Sea Flotilla replaced the Arctic Sea Flotilla...
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Scuttling (section Chesapeake Bay Flotilla (1814))
War of 1812, Commodore Joshua Barney, of the U.S. Navy, Chesapeake Bay Flotilla, sank all nineteen of his fighting vessels, to prevent them from being...
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A flotilla (from Spanish, meaning a small flota (fleet) of ships), or naval flotilla, is a formation of small warships that may be part of a larger fleet...
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Salvatore Pelosi (section Red Sea)
Pelosi was the commander of the submarine Torricelli, part of the Red Sea Flotilla based in Massawa, Eritrea. Toricelli was on patrol in the Gulf of Aden...
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blockade Italian East Africa (Operation Begum), attack the Red Sea Flotilla and protect the sea lanes from Aden to Suez. On 21 October 1941 the Mediterranean...
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The Danube Flotilla was a naval force of the Soviet Navy's Black Sea Fleet during World War II (in Russia, called the Great Patriotic War) and afterwards...
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HMS Capetown by MAS 213 of the 21st MAS Squadron working within the Red Sea Flotilla off Massawa, Eritrea; and the failed Raid on Grand Harbour of Malta...
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The Azov-Black Sea Flotilla was a formation of the Makhnovist fleet, the main area of which was the Sea of Azov. In the spring of 1919, the Makhnovists...
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Tirpitz was sunk at Tromsø by Lancaster bombers. Command of the sea Red Sea Flotilla Maltby 1994, p. 160 Brock, P. W. (5 November 2003) [1961]. "A Fleet...
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Stille, Mark (2021). Italian Destroyers of World War 2. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4728-4055-4. Red Sea Flotilla Italian World War II destroyers...
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These are monthly timelines of the Red Sea crisis, which began on 19 October 2023. On 8 October 2023, the day after the Hamas attack on Israel, U.S. Secretary...
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The Azov Flotilla or Azov Naval Flotilla was the name given to several Russian naval forces operated on the Sea of Azov as part of the Imperial Russian...
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Cagliari, Messina and Taranto, and one submarine, Macallé was located at the Red Sea base of Massawa. Italian submarines of World War II Chesneau, pp. 309–10...
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Ocean Flotilla (AOF) (Russian: Флотилия Северного Ледовитого океана, romanized: Flotiliya Severnogo Ledovitogo okeana), was a Russian military flotilla stationed...
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Pacific Fleet (Russia) (redirect from Siberian Military Flotilla)
Navy, the fleet was known as the Okhotsk Military Flotilla (1731–1856) and Siberian Military Flotilla (1856–1918), formed to defend Russian interests in...
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the threat posed to the small Israeli Navy Red Sea flotilla and the Hawk missile batteries guarding the Red Sea straits from Egyptian MiGs at Hurghada. Base...
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requisitioned in Massawa by the Regia Marina and was made a part of Red Sea Flotilla. At the time of Italy's entry into World War II, only one of four vessels...
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the Eritrean port of Massawa. Ramb IV was part of the Italian Navy's Red Sea Flotilla. When the port of Massawa fell on 10 April 1941 during the East African...
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Djibouti Djibouti City history and timeline For further information, see Red Sea Flotilla. Citations Zarins, Juris (1990), "Early Pastoral Nomadism and the Settlement...
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Flotilla" on 31 May 2010 in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Nine of the flotilla passengers were killed during the raid, with thirty wounded (including...
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majority of these were based at Massawa in Eritrea as part of the Italian Red Sea Flotilla, including seven destroyers and eight submarines. Damage to British...
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support the Italian Red Sea Flotilla based at the port of Massawa, Eritrea. After the Italian declaration of war on 10 June 1940, the flotilla was isolated from...
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based at Asmara, Eritrea, called the Red Sea Flotilla. This was a threat to the British convoys heading up the Red Sea. It consisted of a few destroyers...
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maintained a small squadron in the Italian East Africa area. The "Red Sea Flotilla", consisting of seven destroyers and eight submarines, was based at...
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