Sinking
Unbeaten was returning to the Mediterranean via Gibraltar after a refit in Britain. On 11 November 1942 she was attacked and sunk in error by an RAF Wellington of No. 172 Squadron, Coastal Command in the Bay of Biscay. She was lost with all hands.
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