Malta Channel

Virtu Ferries takes people and cars from Malta to Italy and vice versa.

[citation needed] The seabed, slightly deeper at the southern Maltese end, tends to rise as one approaches the Sicilian coasts.

[citation needed] In World War II, the channel saw naval battles and was also heavily mined when the Crown Colony of Malta tried to supply the island.

[citation needed] For the July 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily, the Commonwealth forces crossed the Malta Channel, while the Americans sailed further to the west.

[3] There were earlier naval battles fought between the Knights of Malta and the Ottoman Navy, and also during the Punic Wars.