Word: spartivento
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aircraft carrier, sank a cruiser. Meantime, an Italian battle squadron put out to protect other Italian warships which were returning from a convoy trip to Libya and evidently were the target of the British raiders from the East. Next day, in an engagement in the Ionian Sea off Cape Spartivento (toe of the Italian "boot") lasting from mid-afternoon until nightfall, the Italian warships (said the Italians) "drove the British back from a threatened attack on important Italian coast positions." When night came, the British ran southeast and pursuing Italian units lost track of them. During this excitement, the Italian...
...scour the sea carefully and not reveal his full force, it was natural for Sir Andrew to split his command into two or more columns, one of which was the force seen by the Italian scout south of Crete. In the night the columns made rendezvous. Off Cape Spartivento next day Sir Andrew encountered the Italians, who had ventured out with two of their six battleships, the fast but thin-skinned Giulio Cesare and Conte di Cavour, together with some heavy (10,000-ton) cruisers and usual destroyer and submarine auxiliaries...
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