Diary January 23, 1941

01-1941, War Diary, Year 1941 / 1 minute of reading

The scuttled old armoured cruiser San Giorgio, which was used by the Italians as a coastal defence ship at Tobruk harbour until the town was captured by the British.

Diary for Thursday, January 23, 1941:

Sea War

After emergency repairs carrier Illustrious leaves Malta for Alexandria (then goes to Norfolk Navy Yard, USA).
Five Norwegian merchant ships – interned at Gothenburg, Sweden, since April 1940 – elude German minefields and the Gneisenau and Scharnhorst and rendezvous with British Home Fleet in Skagerrak.

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.

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