Part of the Battle of the Mediterranean of World War II
Armour-piercing shell fired by HMS Malaya, in the nave of Genoa Cathedral
Date
February 9, 1941
Location
Genoa, Italy
Result
British victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom
Italy
Commanders and leaders
James Somerville
Ferdinando Casardi
Strength
Royal Navy Force H
1 Aircraft carrier
1 Battleship
1 Battlecruiser
1 Cruiser
4 destroyers
Anti-aircraft and coastal artillery
Casualties and losses
1 Swordfish aircraft
5 ships sunk 18 damaged (British sources) 1 training ship sunk 2 ships damaged (Italian sources) 14 lighters sunk[1] 144 killed and 242 wounded Severe damage to port[2]
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Battle of the Mediterranean
1940
Vado
Malta
Club Run¹
Espero ¹²
Mers-el-Kébir
Calabria¹²
Cape Spada
Hurry ¹
Cape Passero¹
MB8 ¹
Taranto
Otranto²
White ¹
Cape Spartivento¹
1941
Excess ¹
Convoy AN 14¹
Genoa
Abstention
Souda Bay
Matapan
Tarigo ²
Crete ²
Substance ¹
Grand Harbour
Halberd ¹
Duisburg ²
Bon²
1st Sirte¹²
Alexandria
1942
2nd Sirte¹
Calendar ¹
Bowery ¹
Albumen
Harpoon ¹
Vigorous ¹
Pedestal ¹
Agreement
Torch
Stoneage ¹
Toulon
Portcullis ¹
Skerki²
Olterra¹
Algiers¹
1943
Zuwarah
Cigno ²
Campobasso ²
Pantelleria
Sicily
Gela
Scylla ²
Messina convoy²
Bastia
Strait of Bonifacio
Dodecanese
Rhodes
Leros
Kos
Cape Bougaroun¹
1944
Ist
Santorini
Symi
Port Cros
La Ciotat
1945
Ligurian Sea ¹
Allied convoys
Malta convoys
U-boat Campaign
¹ — Involved an Allied convoy or delivery mission
² — Involved an Axis convoy or delivery mission
Operation Grog was the name assigned to the British naval and air bombardment of Genoa and La Spezia on 9 February 1941, by a fleet consisting of HMS Malaya, HMS Ark Royal, HMS Renown and HMS Sheffield, screened by ten fleet destroyers including HMS Fearless, HMS Foxhound, HMS Foresight, HMS Fury, HMS Firedrake and HMS Jersey.[3][4]
^Bagnasco, Ermingo (2011). The Littorio Class: Italy's Last and Largest Battleships. Seaforth Publishing. p. 191. ISBN 978-1-84832-105-2.
^Titterton, G. A (2002). Brown, David (ed.). The Royal Navy and the Mediterranean: November 1940-December 1941 Volume 2 Naval Staff Histories Series. Psychology Press. pp. 52–53. ISBN 978-0-7146-5205-4.
^Lt Cdr Geoffrey B Mason RN (Rtd). "SERVICE HISTORIES of ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS in WORLD WAR 2:HMS RENOWN - Renown-class 15in gun Battlecruiser". Naval-History.Net. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
^Lt Cdr Geoffrey B Mason RN (Rtd). "SERVICE HISTORIES of ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS in WORLD WAR 2:HMS Fearless(H67)". Naval-History.Net. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
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