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The Commander (15)
Directed by Edoardo De Angelis
ON the night of October 16 1940, during its first Atlantic patrol off the island of Madeira, the Italian submarine Cappellini sighted the Belgian steamer Kabalo carrying aircraft spare parts, and after unsuccessfully firing three torpedoes, sank her with its deck gun.
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