Word: zeffiro
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...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 destroyer Zeffiro was sunk, and a hit by a 15-inch British shell killed 29, injured 69 aboard an Italian battleship...
...home, spewing smoke screens to cover his departure. Before the smoke got too thick, Sir Andrew opened up with his biggest guns at extreme range (approximately 20 miles). He thought he obtained a hit before the swift Italian ships got to safety. One of his ships sank the Zeffiro when she ran close to the oncoming British to lay smoke. Elsewhere in the Mediterranean, the British submarine Parthian found an Italian submarine cruising at the surface, blew it to bits...
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