Special 1: HMS Warspite
History of the Second World War
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The Uncomfortable Life of the Worspite
The Worspite would spend most of the following months in Killindini near Mombasa halfway down the eastern coast of Africa. The Japanese ships had failed to clear the Royal Navy from the region they had pushed it away from the Japanese attacks in Indonesia. On April 4th Somerville tried to get force into position to launch a nighttime torpedo strike on the Japanese ships. However, while repositioning the heavy cruisers Cornwall and Dorsature were spotted by Japanese scout planes which led to them being sunk. During early 1943 Worspite will once again be recalled to home waters. With their growing allied strength in Europe and Africa it was determined thatWorspite would go back into the
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