 In 2002, Jack Greene and Alessandro Massignani wrote that the German naval , Admiral Werner Löwisch, criticised Italian night fighting training, noting that of his 150 training sessions on the cruiser , 130 had been at night.Italian ships had no night fighting equipment like low-light rangefinders and torpedo boats (escort destroyers in British parlance) could not engage targets further out than .In a report to Berlin, Weichold blamed a lack of training and accused Brivonesi of incompetence.