THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR - After making a rendezvous off the North African coast, an Italian cruiser and a LITTORIO class battleship steam slowly past the British escorting ships towards Malta to surrender, all together there were two battleships, five cruisers and four destroyers. Sailors of HMS WARSPITE are in the foreground. They were also escorted by units of the British destroyer flotillas as well as the battleships VALIANT and WARSPITE (from which this photograph was taken) Royal Navy, WARSPITE (HMS), battleship

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