"Loss of Armando Diaz, 25 February 1941" Topic
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| Tango01 | 16 Jul 2022 9:26 p.m. PST |
"The initial transport of the Afrikakorps (see this link)to North Africa went without any losses on the south-bound route until one of the last convoys saw the German merchant Herakleia sunk at the end of March. Despite this success though, it was not without losses overall. The most serious strike by the Malta-based submarines happened on 25 February 1941, when a Condottieri-class light cruiser of the early two series of six vessels went down, this time it was the Cadorna sub-class RN Armando Diaz. The first loss of a light cruiser of this class had occurred in July 1941 at the Battle of Cape Spada, when RN Bartolomeo Colleoni was sunk by HMAS Sydney. By the the start of the war, the early Condottieris could be considered obsolete due to their lack of protection, and their degraded top speed, which for Armando Diaz seems to have declined from 39 knots when launched in 1932 to 31-32 knots by 1941. They were primarily to be used for convoy escort, mine-laying, and training, or indeed as transports in their own right, although da Giussano did serve in the battle fleet at Punto Stilo in 1940…"
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| UshCha | 17 Jul 2022 8:12 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 17 Jul 2022 3:49 p.m. PST |
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