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Much of the information you are looking for you can find on our website which can be translated via google.

http://www.historisches-marinearchiv.de/projekte/landungsfahrzeuge/marinefaehrprahm/ausgabe.php?where_value=422

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Hi,

On the night of July 29/30 1943, PT's again met F-lighters. This time Lt. (jg.) Richard H. O'Brien, in Clifford's PT 204, with Lt. Norman DeVol's PT 217, engaged two F-lighters escorted by four MAS boats, firing six torpedoes and strafing the MAS boats before heavy fire from one of the lighters forced them to retire. The Italian officer commanding the MAS boats in this action was later interviewed in Capri. He said one F-lighter had been sunk and one MAS boat had been so badly damaged that it was abandoned and sunk by the other MAS boats.
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/CloseQuarters/PT-6.html

What MFP was sunk in this battle American PT-boats 15th Squadron north of Sicily??

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I guess none.

War diary Marinekommando Italien mentions only fight of some Fährprähme against 3 PT boats and that they sustained only minor damage.

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Hi,

Probably and F-lighter that two US destroyers sunk in a battle with the Italian MS-66 and -63 at night 03/08/43 off Cape Kavala, Sicily, was not there?

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I don't understand that sentence.

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Hi,

What the German MFP was sunk in this battle?

On the night of 3/4 August 1943 USS Gherardi and Rhind were making a night offensive sweep along the coast, when at 22:15, a few miles off Cape Calava, they picked up a small convoy consisting of one of the German MFP lighters escorted by two E-boats. At a range of 4,000 yards (3,700 m), the destroyers illuminated the convoy with star shell and opened up with main batteries. MFP blew up at 22:25 and one of the escorting boats was sunk; the other fired at least one torpedo, which missed.

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