Winston Churchill called it the "most dangerous moment of the war". Singapore had fallen. The Japanese were steamrolling through the Pacific. The strategic island of Ceylon seemed next. Admiral Somerville with a hastily assembled rag-tag fleet was all that stood between Japan's elite carrier force and disaster.
Caught off-balance, the Royal Navy carrier HMS Hermes was sunk with its escorting destroyer HMAS Vampire. The heavy cruisers HMS Cornwall and Dorsetshire were caught as they raced to rejoin the battlefleet.
The Royal Navy and Japanese forces closed to within just 80 miles of each other. And Admiral Somerville was committed to the fight ...

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Intro music: Bizet’s L’Arlesienne Suite No. 1

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