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In bright sunshine a fishing smack can be seen off Cape Bon, Tunisia, crowded with Italian Staff Officers and ten soldiers intercepted by HMS LEMERTON while attempting to reach Italy by sea. This is part of a blockade off Cape Bon by Royal Navy ships, preventing all Axis chances of achieving a "Dunkirk" from Africa.}}

In bright sunshine a fishing smack can be seen off Cape Bon, Tunisia, crowded with Italian Staff Officers and ten soldiers intercepted by HMS LEMERTON while attempting to reach Italy by sea. This is part of a blockade off Cape Bon by Royal Navy ships, preventing all Axis chances of achieving a "Dunkirk" from Africa.}}

|author = Parnall, C H (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer

|author = Parnall, C H (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer
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|date = 1943
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|date = 1943-05

|source = http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//30/media-30049/large.jpg

|source = http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//30/media-30049/large.jpg

* Catalogue number [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205186426 A 16735]

* Catalogue number [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205186426 A 16735]

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