After Camperdown, the book's alphabetical structure jumps to Cape Bon in 1941. The discussion corrects and expands the destroyer details, naming Sikh, Maori, Legion, and the Dutch Isaac Sweers before identifying the Italian light cruisers Alberto di Giussano and Alberico da Barbiano as the ships sunk. The Italian force watched the open sea for a British approach, while the destroyers came from the Axis-held landward side and achieved surprise with torpedoes. The short entry opens into a compact lesson about night fighting, attack geometry, and how an enemy's assumptions can leave the apparently safer direction unguarded.
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Cape Bon destroyers and night attack
The Cape Bon entry shows how a short battle-honour note can open into destroyer armament, night fighting, and tactical surprise against Italian cruisers.