Action off Bastia
The action off Bastia (French: bataille navale de Pietracorbara) was a naval battle fought on 9 September 1943 off Corsica's principal port of Bastia in the Tyrrhenian Sea, part of the Mediterranean Sea. It was one of the few successful Italian reactions to Operation Achse, and one of the first acts of resistance by the Italian armed forces against Nazi Germany after the armistice of Cassibile.
| Action off Bastia | |||||||
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| Part of the Battle of the Mediterranean of World War II | |||||||
The Italian torpedo boat Aliseo | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Kingdom of Italy | Germany | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Carlo Fecia di Cossato | Unknown | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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2 torpedo boats 1 corvette coastal batteries |
2 submarine chasers 5 MFPs 2 captured merchant ships | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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1 torpedo boat heavily damaged 1 torpedo boat slightly damaged 70 dead |
2 submarine chasers sunk 5 MFPs sunk 1 motor boat sunk 2 cargo ships beached and recaptured 160 dead 25 prisoners | ||||||
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