Battle of Skerki Bank was an engagement during the Second World War which took place near Skerki Bank in the Mediterranean Sea in the early hours of 2...

The Skerki Banks, also known as the Skerki Channel, are an area of relatively shallow open sea, situated in the central Mediterranean in the Strait of Sicily...

1945 Second Battle of Sirte Operation Vigorous Operation Pedestal Battle of Skerki Bank Raid on Algiers Battle of the Cigno Convoy Battle of the Campobasso...

the destroyer initially remained the property of the Royal Navy. The ship was named after the Battle of Quiberon Bay, which occurred in 1759. Quiberon...

Stone Age. A British convoy reached Malta undisturbed. 2 December, Battle of Skerki Bank. An Italian convoy was attacked and destroyed. 11 December, Raid...

She was sunk on 2 December 1942 by British cruisers of Force Q during the Battle of Skerki Bank, while trying to protect the convoy she was escorting...

torpedo attack 2 December Battle of Skerki Bank – Allied fleet intercepts Italian convoy and sinks all four transport ships and most of their escorting destroyers...

Sicilian Channel destined for Tunisia, starting the Battle of Skerki Bank. The Axis convoy consisted of the German troopship KT-1 (850 GRT) and Italian troopships...

Project: A team of scientists led by Enrico Fermi achieved the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction at Chicago Pile-1. Battle of Skerki Bank: British...

off Tunisia. On 2 December 1942 Nicoloso Da Recco took part of the Battle of Skerki Bank, where an Italo-German convoy carrying troops and supplies to...

1 December, Argonaut and the other ships in Force Q took part in the Battle of Skerki Bank – attacking and largely destroying an Italian convoy. While the...

December 1942 with the loss of 20 men, only hours after participating in the Battle of Skerki Bank. British and Empire Warships of the Second World War, H...

a list of naval vessels sunk or otherwise severely damaged with loss of life during the Second World War. List of maritime disasters List of maritime...

II until she was sunk during the Battle of Skerki Bank in 1942. The Folgore-class destroyers were essentially copies of the preceding Freccia class, although...

A sub-component of a larger covering force escorting Convoy PQ 13 20 March - 1 April 1942 was involved in the Battle of Skerki Bank, 2 December 1942...

Marina Militare. OCLC 249182201. Naval Operations in the Battle of Crete (BR 1732 (2) Battle Summary No. 4. Naval Staff History. London: Admiralty Historical...

of Admiral, Black Sea, 1 October 1942 - 31 December 1942". US Officer of Naval Intelligence. p. 224. Retrieved 25 March 2020. "Black Sea WW2 battles"...

leaving few destroyers with the battle fleet. During the Tunisian Campaign, after the Battle of Skerki Bank caused the loss of 1,500 soldiers in one night...

bound for North Africa, depriving Axis troops of supplies. In November 1942 the Axis lost the Second Battle of El Alamein and the Allies landed forces in...

instead of turning west at the entrance to Skerki Bank or to use aircraft-carriers for attacks on Sardinian airfields, to ease the passage of a convoy...

The Battle of the Tarigo Convoy (sometimes called the Action off Sfax) was a naval battle of the Second World War, part of the Battle of the Mediterranean...

escort mission resulted, on 2 December 1942, in the Battle of Skerki Bank: his convoy (composed of the transport ships Aventino, Aspromonte, Puccini and...

from Alexandria, covering convoys MC 4, MW 5 and ME 6 east of the Skerki Banks. Force B of HMS Gloucester, Southampton, Ilex and Janus would carry five...

centre of Fira, on the second floor of a building that housed a bank. The attackers came from two directions and in spite of barking dogs, they managed to surprise...

the battleship Barham to U-boats, the loss of ships during the Battle of Crete and the sinking of much of Force K on an Italian minefield, the day before...

ships as far as Skerki Banks. An attack by ten Italian bombers was detected by Sheffield's radar at the maximum working distance of 43 nmi (80 km; 49 mi)...

aircraft before the convoy's capital ships turned back before reaching the Skerki Banks between Sicily and Tunisia late in the day on the 12th. The ship returned...

was the subject of a tentative attack by an Italian fleet; the Italians inflicted severe damage on several escorts in the Second Battle of Sirte but the...

was among eleven submarines deployed of the coast of northern Tunisia, between Scoglio Due Fratelli and Skerki Banks, to attack a British convoy for Malta...

was the subject of a tentative attack by an Italian fleet; the Italians inflicted severe damage on several escorts in the Second Battle of Sirte but the...