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In November 1941, the British Mediterranean Fleet was operating from Alexandria while the war in North Africa depended heavily on supply routes across the central and eastern Mediterranean. HMS Barham, a Queen Elizabeth class battleship, sailed with Queen Elizabeth and Valiant to cover British cruiser forces searching for Italian convoys, while German submarine U 331 under Hans Diedrich von Tiesenhausen patrolled the same waters...

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