Attack on Naples 14/12/1940

[sergey]

Hi,

Colleagues,
Please help me identify which British planes attacked Italian ships in Naples on the night of 14/12/1940 and damaged the heavy cruiser Pola.
In work World War II Sea War, Volume 3: The Royal Navy is Bloodied in the Mediterranean by Donald A Bertke, Gordon Smith, Don Kindell it is written

14 DECEMBER 1940 Italian heavy cruiser POLA was damaged by British Swordfish aircraft of 830 Squadron from Malta, during an air attack at Naples.
https://books.google.com.ua/books?id...201940&f=false

but it is completely impossible.

sergey

[Nick Beale]

This is the account from the British Admiralty's War Diary (online at fold3.com, available to subscribers).

[sergey]

Nick! Thank you very much!

[Col Bruggy]

Hello,

The unit involved was the newly-formed detachment of No.148 Sqn RAF (formed from elements of 38, 99 & 115 Sqns at Luqa, on 14th December, 1940).

The Wellington Detachment (of 148 Sqn), was now, nominally, a squadron, albeit on the Island of Malta, and on that same day (14 December 1940), nine Wimpeys bombed Italian warships at Naples, this time with good results.

See:
Trusty To The End: The History of 148 (Special Duties) Squadron 1918-1945.
Clutton-Brock,Oliver
Farsley:Mention The War Publications,2017
p.46

Col.

[sergey]

Thank you very much, Col!