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On Fri. 04 Oct 1940 British submarine HMS Rainbow collided with Italia.....

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British submarine HMS Rainbow collided with Italian ship Antonietta Costa and sank in the Adriatic Sea 20 miles north of Brindisi, Italy. All 55 aboard were lost.

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