The Action of 8 May 1941 was a single ship action fought during the Second World War in the course of which the British heavy cruiser HMS Cornwall sank the German auxiliary cruiser Pinguin. The engagement took place off the Seychelles, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, north of Madagascar.
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