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These included the battleships HMS Queen Elizabeth and Valiant (damaged in the harbour of Alexandria on 18 December 1941), and 111,527 long tons (113,317 t) of merchant shipping. The Xª MAS used a particular kind of torpedo, the SLC ( Siluro a Lenta Corsa ), whose crew was composed of two frogmen, and motorboats packed with explosives, called ...
The Regency of Algiers [a] [b] was a largely independent early modern Ottoman tributary state on the Barbary Coast of North Africa between 1516 and 1830. Founded by the privateer brothers Aruj and Hayreddin Barbarossa, also known as Oruç and Khayr ad-Din, the Regency began as an infamous and formidable pirate base that plundered and waged maritime holy war on European Christian powers.