![]() 1941), with even better results (splinter damages on the British DDs on three single-turret salvos out of seven fired).Īt Gavdos The Vittorio veneto did not obtained anithing better than splinter damages on the Orion and Gloucester firing from 23.000m to 26.000m distance, but, with the enemy ships entering and leaving smokescreens without giving the battleship enough time to aim, a direct hit would have been only a lucky chance. Campioni then reported that the action “confirmed the observation, already done in tests, that, with the Littorio class battleships it’s possible to effectively open fire at 29km if the visibility allows it”.įurther stressing the possibilities of the 381/50 the Littorio opened fire at 32.000m in the fist battle of the Sirte (17 dec. The fist time a Littorio class opened fire at 29.000m in an actual battle had been the Vittorio Veneto at Cape Spartivento (27 nov.
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