Operation Pedestal 1942

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmYz6mvpEVQ

Order of battle ..Allied ships that took part in this operation included:

Battleships:
Rodney
Nelson

Aircraft Carriers:
Eagle (sunk)(16 Sea Hurricanes)[33]
Victorious (6 Sea Hurricanes, 16 Fulmars and 12 Albacores)[33]
Indomitable (damaged) (10 Martlets, 24 Sea Hurricanes and 16 Albacores)[33]
Furious (carrying land-operating Spitfires as reinforcements for the island.)

Cruisers:
Phoebe
Sirius
Charybdis
Nigeria (damaged)
Kenya (damaged)
Manchester (severely damaged and scuttled)
Cairo (sunk)


Destroyers:
Ashanti
Badsworth
Bramham
Bicester
Derwent
Eskimo
Foresight (severely damaged and scuttled)
Fury
Intrepid
Ithuriel
Icarus
Ledbury
Lightning
Lookout
Matchless
Pathfinder
Penn
Somali
Tartar
Zetland



The MV Brisbane Star entering Grand Harbour, Valletta.Merchant Ships:
SS Almeria Lykes (sunk)
MV Brisbane Star (damaged, arrived 14 August)
MV Clan Ferguson (sunk)
MV Deucalion (sunk)
MV Dorset (sunk)
MV Empire Hope (sunk)
MV Glenorchy (sunk)
MV Melbourne Star (arrived 13 August)
SS Ohio (fuel tanker, damaged beyond repair, arrived 15 August)
MV Port Chalmers (arrived 13 August)
MV Rochester Castle (damaged, arrived 13 August)
SS Santa Elisa (freighter, drums of fuel, sunk)
SS Waimarama (freighter, drums of fuel, sunk)
MV Wairangi (freighter, ammo and drums of fuel, sunk)

Axis ships that took part in this operation included:

Cruisers:
Gorizia
Bolzano (severely damaged)
Muzio Attendolo (severely damaged)
Trieste
Eugenio di Savoia
Raimondo Montecuccoli
Submarines:
Alagi
Avorio
Axum
Brin
Bronzo
Cobalto (sunk)
Dagabur (sunk)
Dandolo
Emo
Giada (damaged)
U-73


MV Brisbane Star entering Grand harbour..

Pride and Glory to these man, who fought for our country and most of them gave there life's... May they RIP.....