An item reported that a British submarine hit two Italian cruisers. The J.I.C. referred to an earlier report which suggested that one attack found place north of Sicily on 13 August.(1)
Note
1. Attack was on 13 August. The Muzio Attendolo was part of the Condottieri-class light cruisers sub-class Raimondo Montecuccoli. Laid down by C.R.D.A., Trieste, Italy on 10 April 1931, launched on 9 September 1934, commissioned on 4 December 1942 and sunk on 4 December 1942 in an air attack on Vesuvio and finally salvaged and broken up. The 8” gun heavy cruiser was the Bolzano, preceded by Zara-class, laid down by Gio. Ansaldo&Co., Genoa, Italy on 11 June 1930, launched on 31 August 1932, completed on 19 August 1933, damage of the attack was not repaired, sunk by Italian and British frogmen at La Spezia, Italy on 21 June 1944 and in September 1949 salvaged and broken up. The involved submarine was HMS Unbroken, laid down by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness, England on 30 December 1940, launched on 4 November 1941, commissioned on 29 January 1942, handed over to the Soviet Union on 26 June 1944, renamed V-2, returned in 1949 and broken up in May 1950.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 249 dated 16 August 1942.
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