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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 anti-shipping aircraft over the Mediterranean Sea .
The operation was coordinated with Operation MC 4, consisting of Convoy MW 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 with Breconshire and Clan Macaulay from Alexandria to Malta, ME 6, a return journey of ME 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 with Lanarkshire and Waiwera and ME 6, with Volo, Rodi, Pontfield, Devis, Hoegh Hood, Trocas and RFA Plumleaf. The convoys arrived safely with 10,000 short ...
In Operation Excess, Gallant struck a mine off Pantellaria on 10 January 1941 and Griffin rescued most of the survivors. [14] In February 1941 she was transferred to the Red Sea where she escorted the aircraft carrier Formidable in the latter's operations in support of the military offensive in Italian Somaliland ("Operation Canvas"). [15]
Mohawk was one of the escorts for the battleships of the Mediterranean Fleet as they bombarded Bardia on 3 January 1941. The following week she participated in Operation Excess , a series of convoys to resupply Malta and convey reinforcement for the Mediterranean Fleet past Malta.
The ship took part in Operation Excess early in January 1941 and was transferred back to the Mediterranean Fleet. [11] On 27 February, she evacuated a few surviving commandos from the island of Kastelorizo who had attacked the island in Operation Abstention.
In early 1941, X. Fliegerkorps was transferred from Norway to Sicily to support the build-up of the Afrika Korps in Libya. On 12 January 1941, it had 80 Ju 88A-4 bombers of LG 1 and 12 Ju 88D-5 reconnaissance planes at Catania , 80 Ju 87R-1 ("Stuka") dive-bombers of StG 1 and StG 2 at Trapani , 27 He 111H-6 torpedo bombers of KG 26 at Comiso ...
Greyhound participated in Operation Excess in January 1941 and then sank the Italian submarine Neghelli on 19 January while escorting a convoy to Piraeus. In late January, the ship, and the destroyers Juno , Jervis , and Janus , escorted the badly damaged aircraft carrier Illustrious from Malta to Alexandria.
In early January 1941, the ship was assigned to Force F which formed the close escort for four merchant ships bound for Malta and Piraeus, Greece, as part of Operation Excess. A troopship had run aground before the convoy was to depart and about four hundred troops from it were transferred to Bonaventure. The convoy steamed west when it ...