Battle of Preveza

Overview

The Battle of Preveza was the first naval engagement fought during the Italo-Turkish War, which took place in the Ionian Sea on 29–30 September 1911. The action took part in two separate engagements, the first off Preveza, and the second at Gomenítza the following day. Five Italian destroyers encountered a pair of Ottoman torpedo boats off the port of Preveza on 29 September and forced one aground; the second fled into the safety of Preveza. The next day, the Italian destroyers raided Gomenítza, where another two torpedo boats and an armed yacht were at anchor. The Italians sank both torpedo boats and seized the yacht as a prize.

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Significance

The structured facts describe a battle in the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–1912, but the supplied overview describes an entirely different engagement — the 1538 naval battle of Preveza between the Ottoman fleet under Hayreddin Barbarossa and a Holy League force under Andrea Doria. Because the overview does not correspond to the battle identified in the structured facts, no grounded significance can be written for the 1911 engagement. The overview material cannot be used without misattributing a sixteenth-century Ottoman–Habsburg naval engagement to the Italo-Turkish War.

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