Raid On Alexandria (1941)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.The Raid on Alexandria took place on 19 December 1941, in the Alexandria harbour between Italian Navy and Royal Navy forces. On 3 December, the submarine Scirè of the Italian Royal Navy (Regia Marina) left the naval base of La Spezia carrying three manned torpedoes.At the island of Leros in the Aegean Sea, the submarine secretly picked up six crewmen for them: Luigi Durand de la Penne and Emilio Bianchi (maiale nº 221), Vincenzo Martellotta and Mario Marino (maiale nº 222), and Antonio Marceglia and Spartaco Schergat (maiale nº 223).On December 19, Sciré, at a depth of 15 metres (49 ft), released the manned torpedoes 1.3 miles (2.1 km) from Alexandria commercial harbor, and they entered the naval base when the British opened their defenses to let three of their destroyers pass.

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