Italian destroyer Libeccio slips beneath the waves after being torpedoed by HMS Upholder, Ionian Sea, November 1941.
Libeccio survived the disastrous Naples-Tripoli BETA (Duisburg) Convoy– annihilated midway across the Med by Bill Agnew’s cruiser and destroyers of Force K on 8 November– only to be torpedoed the next day by HMS Upholder.
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