During the Sicilian campaign there were a number of night actions involving Italian MS boats. An indecisive clash took place in the early hours of 13 July 1943 between the British destroyer HMS "Tetcott" escorting an LST in the process of landing Royal Marines on Agnone Bagni, north of Augusta, and "MS 71" and "MS 63", which were trying to insert Italian Army commandos behind enemy lines. The following night, "MTB 655", "MTB 656" and "MTB 633" encountered and engaged "MS 36" and "MS 64" south of Messina. The Italian boats received no damage, while the British craft were slightly damaged by shore batteries. In what became one of the last surface engagements between Italian and Allied naval forces, the American destroyers USS "Rhind" assisted by the USS "Gherardi", sank "MS 66" and disabled "MS 63", in the course of a naval sweep west of Capo d'Orlando, Sicily on 3 August 1943. The damaged "MS 63" managed to limp away after firing a torpedo at "Gherardi".