A few days later she took part in Operation Excess, a military convoy taking stores to Piraeus and Alexandria.
Force H then became involved in Operation Excess, a plan to move convoys through the Mediterranean to support the Western Desert Force, which was trying to push Italian land forces from Egypt into Libya.
During Operation Excess, Diamond and Defender escorted Convoy MW.5 to Malta in January 1941.
She undertook her first operation in early January with the new battleship in response to Operation Excess, a complex series of British convoys to Malta.
The ship participated in Operation Excess in January 1941, during which she escorted a convoy and then escorted the battleship from Souda Bay, Crete to Alexandria.
Greyhound participated in Operation Excess in January 1941 and then sank the on 19 January while escorting a convoy to Piraeus.
Despatched to India before war was declared, Linois left Brest in March 1803, sailing to the South China Sea in an effort to intercept the China Fleet, a huge merchant convoy from Canton to Britain via Madras that carried goods worth in excess of £8 million.
The attack on the WFP convoy came just days after the Nigerian government announced it would release $1 billion from an excess oil account to fight Boko Haram — a decision that runs contrary to the military's narrative that the group was defeated long ago.
On 7 January 1941, Defender escorted Convoy MW.5 with her sister and the anti-aircraft cruiser from Alexandria to Malta during Operation Excess.
No convoys in Afghanistan.
