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    The Malta convoys were Allied supply convoys of the Second World War. The convoys took place during the Siege of Malta in the Mediterranean Theatre. Malta...
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    depleted strike force returned. Further success was had by the Malta Convoys. An urgent supply convoy from Gibraltar to Alexandria (Operation Tiger) coincided...
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    Battle of the Malta Convoy was a naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars fought on 18 February 1800 during the Siege of Malta. The French garrison...
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    off Norway, the search for the German battleship Bismarck, and the Malta Convoys. Ark Royal survived several near misses and gained a reputation as a...
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    ferry duty once again to participate in Operation Calendar, one of many Malta Convoys. Having landed her torpedo bombers and dive bombers at RNAS Hatston...
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    during the Second World War. Malta was a base from which British ships, submarines and aircraft attacked Axis convoys to Libya, during the North African...
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    escort for convoy WS 11X from Glasgow to Gibraltar. From 24 to 30 September 1941 she was part of Operation Halberd, one of the Malta Convoys. Nine fast...
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    Operation Harpoon (1942) (category Malta Convoys)
    Operation Harpoon was one of two simultaneous Allied convoys sent to supply Malta in the Axis-dominated central Mediterranean Sea in mid-June 1942, during...
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    SS Ohio (1940) (category 20th century in Malta)
    the fiercest and most heavily contested of the Malta convoys, in August 1942. Although Ohio reached Malta successfully, it was so badly damaged that it...
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  • within the Mediterranean Sea, e.g. naval operations such as Category:Malta Convoys. 25 (1941) — invasion of Yugoslavia. Strafe ("Punishment") (1941) —...
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    Crete and Syria-Lebanon Campaigns, the Tobruk Ferry Service, and the Malta Convoys. During 1942, the destroyer was involved in Operation Vigorous and the...
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    from which to cover Malta convoys. Two weeks before the convoys, the carrier HMS Eagle began operations to deliver 63 Spitfires to Malta, which increased...
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    Second Battle of Sirte (category Malta Convoys)
    000 t) of cargo had reached Malta without loss and a reserve of seven months' supplies had been accumulated. Three convoys to Malta in 1941 suffered the loss...
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    interdict Italian convoys to Libya and to protect British convoys to Malta. Firstly, she sailed with the fleet to search for Italian convoys, possibly with...
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    Operation Bowery (category Malta Convoys)
    convoys were reliant on aerial patrolling, radar and lookouts. As Malta began to run short of supplies, Operation MG 1 was mounted to escort Convoy MW...
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    HMS Legion (G74) (category 1942 in Malta)
    escorting capital ships supplying aircraft to Malta. She provided cover on 24 September for the convoys of Operation Halberd. During the operation, the...
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    ammunition and the Malta convoys had to be postponed until they had replenished from the eight hundred 6-inch shells in reserve. Convoy AS 1 from Turkey...
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    but by July she had returned to the Mediterranean, where she escorted Malta convoys and herself ran supply trips to the island. Towards the end of 1941...
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    withdrawn. After a convoy was run to Malta in Operation Stoneage (16–20 November) Force K was re-established against Axis convoys. The Admiralty suspected...
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    convoys from Malta were delayed as a result of this action. 9 July, the Battle of Calabria. An encounter between fleet forces escorting large convoys...
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  • Auxiliary. During the Second World War she played an important role in the Malta Convoys and in Pacific operations. From 24 September to 30 September 1941 Brown...
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    military forces. British attacks came from Malta, also dependent upon convoys for supplies. The five ships in the convoy were sunk or run aground, along with...
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    Operation Excess (category Malta Convoys)
    Operation Excess was a series of British supply convoys to Malta, Alexandria and Greece in January 1941. The operation was the first to encounter Luftwaffe...
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    before being transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet in mid-1942 for the Malta Convoys. She also saw service during Operation Torch. The ship was torpedoed...
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    The siege of Malta, also known as the siege of Valletta or the French blockade (Maltese: L-Imblokk tal-Franċiżi), was a two-year siege and blockade of...
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    part in the battles of the Espero Convoy and Calabria, the Arctic Convoys, and Operation Harpoon during the Malta Convoys. On 14 June 1942, during Operation...
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  • Norway 1940 Spartivento 1940 Mediterranean 1940–1941 Bismarck 1941 Malta Convoys 1941 Al Faw 2003 This article includes a list of ships with the same...
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    support to the Malta Convoys, while receiving minimal damage and no casualties. On her return to Australia in February 1941, Sydney resumed convoy escort and...
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    British to supply Malta and Greece. The Axis forces involved the Western Desert Campaign were supplied across the Mediterranean by convoys from Italy to the...
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    This is a List of Allied convoys during World War II by region. "Norwegian Campaign, World War 2 at Sea, April 1940". "Norwegian Campaign, World War 2...
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