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...shells flew into docks, warehouses, oil tanks, power stations, supply ships, harbor installations, and into the electric and boiler works of the huge Ansaldo shipbuilding plant. In the whole operation, only one Swordfish was lost. The squadron included the 32,000-ton battle cruiser Renown, the 31,000-ton battleship Malaya, a veteran of Jutland, the 22,000-ton aircraft carrier Ark Royal, the 9,100-ton cruiser Sheffield, and a covering guard of smaller vessels. The commander again was Sir James Somerville...
...East the Battle opened with counterparts of the precautions at Oran and Gibraltar. The British hastily grabbed a French battleship, four cruisers and smaller vessels in Alexandria, and set up a patrol guarding the Suez Canal...
H.M.S. King George V, fast, powerful, riding low in the water, plowed through the grey North Atlantic, her convoy of destroyers slipping along beside her. Five hundred miles off the coast the convoy was dropped; the battleship sailed on alone. At 6:16 on a grey, cold morning, ship watchers at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay reported tersely: ''British warship, King George V class, off Norfolk waters."* Through a morning mist the battleship swung northwest, past the mouth of the Potomac, the inlets of Maryland's Eastern Shore, to drop anchor, invisible in the rain...
...tied up at the Severn Basin; while midshipmen and officers snapped to attention, the Executive flag broke out from the foremast, the President was piped over the side. On the King George V arrangements were made for the President to come aboard; but the Potomac only circled the huge battleship, slowly, to give the President a good look. A guard of honor of Royal Marines stood at present arms on deck and the band played The Star-Spangled Banner. A launch carried Lord and Lady Halifax from the King George V to the Potomac, and the Presidential yacht disappeared into...
Late in the week, Berlin announced that dive bombers had come upon a British convoy west of Crete, and in the ensuing attack had scored "severe bomb hits of heavy and medium caliber" on the stern of one battleship, forward and starboard on another battleship, and also on a heavy cruiser...