Career
''Unruffled'' spent most of her eventful wartime career in the Mediterranean, where she sank the Vichy-French merchant ship ''Liberia'' (the former Greek ''Cape Corso''), the Italian auxiliary minesweeper N 10 / ''Aquila'', the Italian merchant ships ''Leonardo Palomba'', , ''Sant'Antioco'', ''Citta di Catania'', and ''Città di Spezia'', the Italian tankers ''Castelverde'' and ''Teodolinda'', the Italian sailing vessel ''Amabile Carolina'', the Italian naval auxiliary Z 90 / ''Redentore'', the German merchant ships ''Lisboa'', ''Pommern'' and ''Baalbeck'' and the French tanker ''Henri Desprez''. On 13 October 1942 ''Unruffled'' torpedoed and sank the Italian cargo ship in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the north coast of Sicily. ''Loreto'' was carrying prisoners of war, 130 of whom were killed. ''Unruffled'' launched unsuccessful attacks on the and the small German minesweeper ''R 212''. Her most important target was the , which she torpedoed on 7 November 1942. Although of bow were blown off ''Unruffled'' could not sink the cruiser, having by now run out of torpedoes. The damaged cruiser was towed to port by the tug ''Polifemo'', escorted by the torpedo boats , and . Another attack by failed, but ''Attilio Regolo'' was out of action for the rest of the war. As well as these actions, ''Unruffled'' took part in operations Harpoon and Vigorous. She was also the recovery vessel for Operation Principal, aReferences
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