Impi yaseCape Falls
I-Italian light cruiser "Giovanni delle Bande Nere", i-flagship "Cadmium". UFerdinando Casardi empini yaseCape Spada.
Esikhathini sokuqala somzabalazo phakathi kwemikhumbi yaseBrithani nemikhumbi yase-Italy, ngemva nje kokuba i-Italy ingene empini ngasohlangothini lwe-Third Reich, ngoJulayi 19, 1940, impi yaba khona eCape Spada eCrete phakathi kwesivinini esikhulu. ama-cruiser alula wemikhumbi yase-Italy. ngaphansi komyalo kaCadmius. UFerdinando Casardi, i-Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney kanye nababhubhisi abahlanu baseBrithani ngaphansi komyalo we-Cmdr. UJohn Augustine Collins. Lokhu kusebenzelana okuqinile kuholele ekunqobeni okuqinisekile kwe-Allied, naphezu kwenzuzo enkulu yokuqala yemikhumbi yase-Italy ekuqhumeni umlilo kwezikhali.
Maphakathi no-July 1940, umyalo we-Regia Marina wanquma ukuthumela ithimba labagibeli ababili abahamba ngezinyawo abasheshayo endaweni esiqhingini saseLeros esiqhingini saseDodecanese. Zombili lezi zinyunithi zingadala inkinga enkulu kumaBritish ngokuba khona kwawo kula manzi, ngoba ezinhlotsheni ezihleliwe eziqhubekayo kwadingeka babhekane nemikhumbi ye-Allied e-Aegean Sea. Ukudutshulwa kwe-Es-Salloum enyakatho-ntshonalanga yeGibhithe nakho kwacatshangelwa, kodwa ekugcineni lo mbono walahlwa.
Umbhubhisi waseBrithani u-Hasty, omunye wemikhumbi emine yalolu hlobo efakwe ku-flotilla yesi-2,
ngaphansi komyalo kaCdr. HSL Nicholson.
Kulo msebenzi, amayunithi avela ku-2nd Light Cruiser Squadron akhethiwe. Bekuhlanganisa u-Giovanni delle Bande Nere (umkhuzi uFrancesco Maugeri) no-Bartolomeo Colleoni (umkhuzi u-Umberto Novaro). Imikhumbi kwakungeyesigaba se-Alberto di Giussano. Babenokususwa okujwayelekile okungu-6571, ukufuduka okuphelele okungafika kumathani angama-8040, ubukhulu: ubude - 169,3 m, ububanzi - 15,59 m nohlaka - 5,3-5,9 m, izikhali: izinhlangothi - 18-24 mm, amadekhi - 20 mm, isibhamu esikhulu sezikhali. imibhoshongo - 23 mm, okuthunyelwe komyalo - 25-40 mm. Uhla lwazo zombili izikebhe zase-Italy ezinendawo yokugcina amathani angu-1240 kaphethiloli lwalungaba amamayela angu-3800 we-nautical ngesivinini samafindo angu-18. U-Cadmium wayengumkhuzi weqembu. UFerdinando Casardi waya eBande Nere. Womabili la mayunithi aqala ukusebenza eMbuthweni Wezempi Wase-Italy ngo-1931-1932. Ekuqaleni, bahlakulela isivinini esimangalisayo, bafinyelela amafindo angu-39 (kodwa ngaphandle kwemishini egcwele). Phakathi nokulwa ngo-July 1940, bakwazi ukufinyelela ekhulwini lama-32, okwabanikeza inzuzo ngesivinini phezu cruisers Allied, ngisho ababhubhisi ababeneminyaka eminingi enkonzweni (le nzuzo yabonakala ikakhulukazi ezimweni ezinzima hydrometeorological. ). izimo).)
Ngamunye wabagibeli base-Italy naye wayehlome kahle: izibhamu ezingu-8 152 mm, izibhamu ezi-6 ezilwa nezindiza. 100 mm, izibhamu eziyi-8 ezilwa nendiza ezingama-20 mm kanye nezibhamu ezingama-8 mm eziyisishiyagalombili, kanye namashubhu amane e-torpedo angu-13,2 mm. Le mikhumbi ingasebenzisa izindiza zasolwandle ezimbili ze-IMAM Ro.4, zisuka ku-catapult yomnsalo, ukuze ibone kabusha umcengezi ngaphambi kokusebenza okuhleliwe.
Abagibeli base-Italy basuka eTripoli (Libya) ngoJulayi 17, 1940 ngo-22:00. U-Admiral Kazardi Ongemuva wathumela imikhumbi yakhe emhubheni ophakathi kogu lwaseKrethe nesiqhingi sase-Andikitira enyakatho-ntshonalanga yaso. Wahamba ngomkhumbi ngesivinini esingamafindo angaba ngu-25, egoqa ngokucophelela endleleni ukuze agweme ukuhlaselwa yimikhumbi-ngwenya, nakuba ngaleso sivinini ayengeke abe namathuba amancane okuphumelela. Cishe ngo-6 July 00, amaNtaliyane asondela ogwini olusentshonalanga yeKrethe futhi aqala ukuqhubekela phambili ekuweleni. Ukungqubuzana phakathi kwemikhumbi yezitha kanye nabagibeli bakaKazardi ngokusobala bekungalindelekile, ngokungazi lutho becabanga ukuthi indawo ephambi kwabo yayisivele igqekeziwe yizindiza zeDodecanese futhi ngabe bakubike lokhu kusenesikhathi. Kunoma yikuphi, azikho izimoto zokuhlola ezithunyelwe, ukuze ungachithi isikhathi uzikhuphule emanzini futhi ungalibali uhambo.
Amacebo amaNtaliyane, nokho, cishe, aqondwa amaBritish ngokuhamba kwesikhathi, noma kunjalo, kunezinkomba eziningi zokuthi ubuhlakani babo badlulisela izindaba ezifanele kumkhuzi weMedithera Fleet, u-admiral. U-Andrew Brown Cunningham 1. Ntambama kaJulayi 17, ababhubhisi abane be-2nd Flotilla (Hyperion, Hastie, Hero kanye ne-Ilex2), esekelwe e-Alexandria, bathola umyalo ovela kuPhini Lomphathi We-Mediterranean Fleet, u-Vadma. John Tovey ukuya endaweni esenyakatho-ntshonalanga ye-Cape Spada e-Crete, ebheka imikhumbi-ngwenya yase-Italy endaweni futhi ezulazula kancane indawo ebheke ngasentshonalanga. Egcwalisa lo myalo, ababhubhisi uCdr. ULieutenant Hugh St. U-Lawrence Nicholson ushiye isizinda ngemva nje kwamabili ngo-Julayi 17-18.
