COSSACK joined Force X. Speed of convoy 13.5 knots with a mean course of due East.

Main convoy located by the Italians and was attacked by nine S.79 torpedo bombers at low level while five Cant Z1007 bombed from high altitude. ARK ROYAL launched seven Fulmars to join the four already airborne but three were lost to enemy fire.

As part of Force H.  MANCHESTER  attacked by torpedoes launched by MAS numbers 16 and 22. Damaged by aerial torpedo from a S.79 (which was shot down ) hitting an oil fuel tank. 26 killed and one wounded.

Aerial attack at 0910 (0945?) by SM79 bombers.

FEARLESS hit by an aerial torpedo from a S.79) North of Bone.  She was sunk at 1055 (37-40N, 8-20E ) by a torpedo from FORESTER after picking up survivors.  18 missing and 23 wounded of whom 9 died later.

Second aerial attack at 1011 by five Fiat BR20s at 17000 feet. They were attacked by five Fulmars

1900 Skerki Channel. Convoy attacked by four torpedo bombers from the South. One enemy shot down.

1945 High – level bombing of the convoy

FIREDRAKE damaged by near miss bomb. (Towed for 37 hours en route to Gibraltar.)

COSSACK ordered into the van of the Port column

Attacked off Cape Bon by aircraft and by two MAS boats who fired two torpedoes. Two torpedoes missed COSSACK who damaged two E-boats with gunfire.