| ALBERTO DA BARBIANO and ALBERICO DI GIUSSANO (December 13, 1941)
Two Italian cruisers, both sunk by torpedoes fired from the British destroyers Sikh, Maori, Legion and the Dutch destroyer Isaac Sweers. The destroyers were proceeding from Gibraltar to Alexandria when they sighted the Italian cruisers. Around 900 men from the two cruisers were killed.
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On weald of Kent I watched once more
Again I heard that grumbling roar
Of fighter planes; yet none were near
And all around the sky was clear
Borne on the wind a whisper came
'Though men grow old, they stay the same'
And then I knew, unseen to eye
The ageless Few were sweeping by
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