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Attempts to tow the ship to Malta failed; her troops were taken off and the ship was scuttled. During the morning of 28 September, the convoy came into range of Malta-based fighters. The rest of the convoy reached Malta at 1:30 p.m. and landed 85,000 short tons (77,000 t) of supplies. Halberd was the last convoy operation of 1941.
Malta was a base for air, sea and submarine operations against Axis supply convoys and from 1 June to 31 October 1941, British forces sank about 220,000 long tons (220,000 t) of Axis shipping on the African convoy routes, 94,000 long tons (96,000 t) by the navy and 115,000 long tons (117,000 t) by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and Fleet Air Arm (FAA).
Brest via British Isles to Norway April 1940 May 1940 French and Polish troop convoys FS Firth of Forth to River Thames: 1939 1945 1,840 FS [3] Brest via British Isles to Norway April 1940 May 1940 French supply convoys GREYBACK Dieppe, Seine-Maritime to Newhaven, East Sussex: ferry service GS Grimsby to Southend-on-Sea: 1940 1940 HM Holyhead ...
Right after the engagement, which pushed the British convoy too far south of their route, Gallant struck a naval mine at 08:35. [8] Mohawk took Gallant in tow toward Malta while the Force B cruisers provided protection from air attacks. [5] Convoys MC 4 and MW 5 arrived at Malta and convoy ME 6 departed for Alexandria. [3]
As British troops were being removed from Africa, the Axis significantly strengthened their presence there. This enabled German General Erwin Rommel to begin the push of his Afrika Korps toward Egypt that was not stopped until late 1942 at El Alamein.. In January 1941, a convoy was assembled to resupply Malta and Greece from Gibraltar ...
MV Deucalion was a Blue Funnel Line refrigerated cargo ship that was built in England in 1930 and sunk in the Second World War in 1942. She survived being damaged in the Liverpool Blitz in December 1940 and took part in two Malta convoys to relieve the Siege of Malta.
The Operation Halberd convoy reached Malta with 50,000 tons of urgently needed supplies. [2] The first British convoy of supplies for the Soviet Union departed Iceland for Arkhangelsk. [1] Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox entered the final day of the baseball season batting .3995535, which would have been rounded up to .400 in the official ...
The Second Battle of Sirte (on 22 March 1942) was a naval engagement in the Mediterranean Sea, north of the Gulf of Sidra and south-east of Malta, during the Second World War. The escorting warships of a British convoy to Malta held off a much more powerful squadron of the Regia Marina (Italian Navy).