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Preliminary movements 3 - 10 August 1942: The convoy to Malta, with its huge escort, about to enter the Mediterranean. Fifteen merchant ships were escorted by five aircraft carriers; INDOMITABLE, VICTORIOUS, EAGLE, FURIOUS and ARGUS, two battleships; NELSON and RODNEY, seven cruisers and thirty destroyers.}}

Preliminary movements 3 - 10 August 1942: The convoy to Malta, with its huge escort, about to enter the Mediterranean. Fifteen merchant ships were escorted by five aircraft carriers; INDOMITABLE, VICTORIOUS, EAGLE, FURIOUS and ARGUS, two battleships; NELSON and RODNEY, seven cruisers and thirty destroyers.}}

|author = Roper F G (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer

|author = Roper F G (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer
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|source = http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//7/media-7110/large.jpg

|source = http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//7/media-7110/large.jpg

* Catalogue number [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205016067 A 11149]

* Catalogue number [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205016067 A 11149]

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