With Illustrious out of the war for the foreseeable future, Cunningham requested a replacement. Despite delays due to the German mining of the Suez Canal, HMS Formidable, sister ship of Illustrious arrived in Alexandria.
In Italy the Regia Marina were under pressure from the Germans to ‘do something’. They were given erroneous intelligence …
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