๐ฅ๐ฟ๐๐๐ง ๐๐ฉ๐ค๐ง๐๐๐จ ๐๐จ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ผ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐ ๐พ๐ค๐ข๐๐๐ฉ ๐๐ค๐ค๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ฟ๐ฅ Italian destroyer Espero was one of eight Turbine-class destroyers built for the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) during the 1920s. She was named after a westerly wind, Espero, or Ponente, common in summer in the Mediterranean. Completed in 1928.ย ย After Italy entered World War II on 10 June 1940, Espero was part of the 2nd Destroyer Squadron, based at Taranto. Only seventeen days after Italy's entry into the war, Espero was sunk during the Battle of the Espero Convoy as she covered the convoy's retreat, the first surface engagement between Allied and Italian warships. The ship was the first Italian destroyer to be lost in World War II.ย
On 28 June 1940 at
12:10, about 50 mi (43 nmi; 80 km) west of Zakynthos, the convoy was sighted by a British reconnaissance Short Sunderland plane. ย As they were within striking range of the British 7th Cruiser Squadron, composed of light cruisers Liverpool, Orion, Neptune, Gloucester and Sydney, Admiral John Tovey ordered them to intercept the Italians.
While Liverpool and Gloucester took on Espero, the other three cruisers tried to get around the smokescreens to attack the fleeing Ostro and Zeffiro, but were ordered to abandon their pursuit and concentrate on Espero instead.ย ย Due to zigzagging Espero managed to avoid being hit, but by
19:20 the range between her and Liverpool had shortened to 14,000 yd (13,000 m). ย In fact, Italians drew first blood, when an Italian 4.7 in (120 mm) shell hit Liverpool just 3 ft above the waterline, with splinters penetrating the warheads of two torpedoes, but caused little damage otherwise. ย Despite heavy firing, Espero was not hit until
20:00, when her engine rooms were struck bringing the vessel to a stop. The 7th Squadron expended about 5,000 shells, more than 1,600 of main caliber, before the Italian destroyer was sunk, after 130 minutes of fierce fighting.ย Sydney rescued 47 out of 225 men from the Italian destroyer, and thirty six more escaped on rafts, but only six of them were later found alive by Italian submarine Topazio almost 20 days later. ย Captain Baroni died aboard his ship, and was posthumously awarded the Medaglia dยดoro al valor militare.
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