Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Musi waNovember 8, 1942, apo yakashandiswa kure neOran, Algeria nokuda kwebasa rokuti "Torch"
"Achates" yakawana, ndokurwisa ngarava yeFrance yeVichy, iyo yakanga yabuda kuzopikisa kuiswa kweAllied munharaunda yacho. "Achates" yakarwisa "Argonaute", yakaona kusimuka kwemafuta pamusoro pegungwa nemapundu makuru emhepo, pamwe chete nemarara kubva mukati nokunze kwechikepe chepasi pemvura. Kutevera izvi, pane imwe nguva gare gare, HMS Westcott yakaita kumwe kurwisa, nokudaro ngarava mbiri idzi dzakanzi ndidzo dzakaparadzwa.