An image of Bartolomeo Colleoni under fire introduces a distinction between the conduct of the crew and the qualities of the ship. Italian naval officers and sailors often fought bravely, and Colleoni kept fighting during the action with HMAS Sydney. Courage, however, could not supply the armor, subdivision, or damage tolerance absent from the hull. The moment warns against turning a design critique into a claim about the people who had to operate the design.
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Crew bravery could not supply ship survivability
Colleoni under fire illustrates the difference between an Italian crew that continued fighting bravely and a hull that lacked the protection to survive.