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Italian submarine Ascianghi
1943Jul, 23

World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland.

Italian submarine Ascianghi was an Adua-class submarine built for the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) during the 1930s. It was named after Lake Ashenge in Ethiopia.

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HMS Eclipse was an E-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that saw service in the Atlantic, Arctic, and Mediterranean theatres during World War II, until sunk by a mine in the Aegean Sea on 24 October 1943.

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