The SS Gaetano Donizetti was an ex-Italian merchant motorship, captured by Nazi Germany for war use then destroyed by HMS Eclipse on 23 September 23, 1943 in the eastern Aegean Sea, taking to the bottom its munitions and killing 1,800 people on board: 1,576 Italian prisoners of war significantly overcrowded aboard, 220 German guards, and a small crew. == Background == On September 8, 1943 the Armitice of Cassibile was signed.
The SS Gaetano Donizetti was an ex-Italian merchant motorship, captured by Nazi Germany for war use then destroyed by HMS Eclipse on 23 September 23, 1943 in the eastern Aegean Sea, taking to the bottom its munitions and killing 1,800 people on board: 1,576 Italian prisoners of war significantly overcrowded aboard, 220 German guards, and a small crew. == Background == On September 8, 1943 the Armitice of Cassibile was signed.
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