Shortly after this a darkened ship appeared quite suddenly close on our starboard bow. We recognized her as an Italian destroyer (she turned Out to be the Maestrale, Our guns had meanwhile been firing on the other bow, so there was a frantic race to re-load and bring them to bear on this more immediate danger. It seemed ages before this managed, and meanwhile the Italian had passed down our starboard side about 150 yards away. By the time we opened fire she was on our beam. The range was point blank, and our first salvo scored at least two hits. One hit near the stern and the other blew her bridge structure to pieces. We were using armour-piercing shell, so this round burst inside the bridg and the explosion silhouetted frag: ments of it flying in all directions. Our second salvo also hit Then the unfortunate destroyer came under fire from the Havock astern of us, and soon after this she blew up and sank.
Then we turned to try and find: the cruiser. which, we thought wed damaged by otn up with ber very soon encounter with the Maestrale found her going very slowly and with a fairly heavy hsi. So we opened fire with our guns at a range of about 1500 yards, We were all expecting to be blown to pieces any minute, but, to our astonishment she did not reply until we started getting hits. when she opened fire with her small guns and straddled us, but got no hits. Our 4.7 shells started quite a merry blaze in her Beals would te delayed at least next Puis um sheer:
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