Once Italy entered the war, a 100-strong company was formed from German residents of East Africa and stranded German sailors. Italian forces in East Africa were equipped with about machine-guns, 24 M11/39 medium tanks, 39 L3/35 tankettes, and twenty-four anti-aircraft guns, seventy-one and The Italians had little opportunity for reinforcement or supply, leading to severe shortages, especially of ammunition. On occasion, foreign merchant vessels captured by German merchant raiders in the Indian Ocean were brought to Somali ports but their cargoes were not always of much use to the Italian war effort. On 22 November 1940 the Yugoslav steamer "Durmitor", captured by the German auxiliary cruiser "Atlantis", put in at Warsheikh with a cargo of salt and several hundred prisoners.