Monday, 14 December

Light cruisers ARGONAUT, AURORA with destroyers ESKIMO and QUALITY were returning from a patrol in the Bizerte-Marittimo Channel when attacked by Italian aircraft. ARGONAUT was torpedoed west of Gaita Island by Italian submarine MOCENIGO in her bow and stern. However, two of her four propellers remained operational and she was able to reach Algiers under her own power. Lt (E) H S G Morgan was lost. She repaired in Philadelphia from March 1943 to November 1944.