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U-boat Campaign Club Run¹ Malta Convoys¹ Espero ¹² Mers-el-Kébir Calabria¹² Cape Spada Cape Passero¹ Taranto Strait of Otranto² White ¹ Cape Spartivento¹ Excess ¹ Genoa Abstention Souda Bay Matapan Tarigo ² Crete Substance ¹ Halberd ¹ Duisburg ² Bon² 1st Sirte¹² Alexandria raid 2nd Sirte¹ Calendar Harpoon ¹ Vigorous ¹ Pedestal ¹ Agreement Torch Stone Age ¹ Toulon *Portcullis* ¹ Skerki² Algiers¹ Cigno ² Sicily Gela Olterra's campaign¹ Sinking of Roma Dodecanese Campaign Cape Bougaroun¹ Port Cros La Ciotat

¹ — Involved an Allied convoy ² — Involved an Axis convoy

Operation Portcullis was a British naval operation to deliver a convoy of four merchant ships to the Mediterranean island of Malta. It occurred during November and December 1942, at a time when the strategic situation in the region had radically changed in the Allies' favour and convoys were under reduced threat.

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