Italian auxiliary ship Olterra

Italian auxiliary ship Olterra
	Part of the Battle of the Mediterranean of World War II
	; Olterra at anchor shortly before being broken up at Vado Ligure, 1961
Date	8 December 1942 – 4 August 1943
Location	Gibraltar, Western Mediterranean
Result	42,000 tn of Allied shipping sunk
Belligerents
United Kingdom	Italy
Commanders and leaders
Lionel Crabb	Licio Visintini †; Ernesto Notari
Strength
Harbour defences	1 mother ship; 9 manned torpedoes
Casualties and losses
6 merchant ships sunk; 2 sailors killed	3 divers killed; 3 prisoners; 2 manned torpedoes lost

The auxiliary ship Olterra was a 5,000 ton Italian tanker scuttled by her own crew at Algeciras in the Bay of Gibraltar on 10 June 1940, after the entry of Italy in World War II. She was recovered in 1942 by a special unit of the Decima Flottiglia MAS to be used as an undercover base for manned torpedoes in order to attack Allied shipping at Gibraltar.^[2]

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