"Diether von Roeder" had to be scuttled while "Erich Giese" was sunk in conjunction with destroyers. Although the Second Naval Battle of Narvik was considered a success, "Warspite" was lucky to escape unscathed given the number of submarines and other torpedo-armed enemy warships present in the narrow confines of the Norwegian fjords. She remained in Norwegian waters, participating in several shore bombardments around Narvik on 24 April, but these proved ineffectual and she returned to Scapa Flow prior to being redeployed to the Mediterranean on 28 April. Calabria "Warspite" arrived safely in Alexandria before Italy entered the war on 10 June 1940. Admiral Cunningham took the fleet to sea on 7 July to meet two convoys travelling from Malta to Alexandria, knowing that part of the Italian fleet was escorting its own convoy to Tripoli. Cunningham hoped to draw the Regia Marina into battle by sailing towards the "toe" of Italy to cut them off from their base at Taranto. The two fleets eventually met 30 miles from Punta Stilo at the Battle of Calabria on 9 July 1940. Initially the Allied cruisers, armed with 6-inch guns, were outranged by the 8-inch guns of their heavier Italian counterparts and disengaged. Seeing that they were under pressure, Cunningham took "Warspite" ahead to assist his cruisers. The Italian cruisers turned away under a smoke screen while the battleships and closed on "Warspite" before "Malaya" and could catch up. During the battle "Warspite" achieved one of the longest range gunnery hits from a moving ship to a moving target in history, hitting "Giulio Cesare" at a range of approximately , the other being a shot from which hit at approximately the same distance in June 1940. The shell pierced "Giulio Cesare's" rear funnel and detonated inside it, blowing out a hole nearly across, while fragments started several fires and their smoke was drawn into the boiler rooms, forcing four boilers off-line as their operators could not breathe which reduced the ship's speed to . Uncertain how severe the damage was, Campioni ordered his battleships to turn away in the face of superior British numbers and they successfully disengaged behind a smoke screen laid by Italian destroyers. The destroyers and cruisers on both sides continued shooting for half an hour, but with "Malaya" and "Royal Sovereign" coming into range the Italian fleet disengaged.