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Battle of the Strait of Otranto (1940)
The Battle of the Strait of Otranto (12 November 1940) was a minor naval action during the Battle of the Mediterranean in World War II. It took place in the Strait of Otranto in the Adriatic Sea, between Italy and Albania.
==Background==
The battle occurred when an Allied squadron entered the Adriatic Sea looking for Italian naval targets. Although they did not know it at the time the squadron's real purpose was to help draw enemy attention from a major action against the main Italian fleet base at Taranto.〔Coulthard-Clark 1998, p. 176.〕 The Allied squadron was commanded by Vice Admiral Henry Pridham-Whippel in the light cruiser , and included the light cruisers and and the destroyers and .
On 12 November, an Italian Navy (''Regia Marina'') convoy of four merchant ships—''Antonio Locatelli'', ''Premuda'', ''Capo Vado'' and ''Catalani''—were on their way back from Valona, Albania to Brindisi, Italy〔Jordan 2006, p. 226.〕 while escorted by the World War I-era torpedo boat ''Fabrizi'', commanded by T.V.c. Giovanni Barbini and the auxiliary cruiser commanded by C.F. Francesco De Angelis. The ships were travelling darkened without navigational lights.
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