 In early 1942 Type 271 radar and HF/DF direction finding equipment was fitted.In October "Aberdeen" escorted military convoys to Gibraltar in preparation for the landings in North Africa ("Operation Torch"), and on 8 November was deployed off Oran in support of the landings.At the end of the year "Aberdeen" was refitted at a Tyne shipyard, and the "Hedgehog" anti-submarine mortar was fitted.