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During World War II the Royal Navy and its Commonwealth allies fought one of the most arduous campaigns in its history, but the losses between November 1941 and May 1942 were particularly bad, as Conrad Waters recounts.
The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal takes on a heavy list after being hit by a single torpedo from U-81 on 13 November 1941. She sank the following day.
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