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Operation Pedestal (Italian: Battaglia di Mezzo Agosto, ... (1940–1943). From 1940 to 1942, the Axis conducted the Siege of Malta, with air and naval forces ...
The tanker played a key role in Operation Pedestal, which was one of the fiercest and most heavily contested of the Malta convoys, in August 1942. [2] Although Ohio reached Malta successfully, it was so badly damaged that it had to be effectively scuttled in order to offload its cargo, and never sailed again.
The operation was coordinated with Operation MC 4, consisting of Convoy MW 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 with Breconshire and Clan Macaulay from Alexandria to Malta, ME 6, a return journey of ME 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 with Lanarkshire and Waiwera and ME 6, with Volo, Rodi, Pontfield, Devis, Hoegh Hood, Trocas and RFA Plumleaf. The convoys arrived safely with 10,000 short ...
SS Almeria Lykes (1920), purchased 1922, sold 1940; SS Almeria Lykes (1940), managed for USMC 1940–41, and again in 1942. Sunk during Operation Pedestal; SS Almeria Lykes (1945), managed for USMC, scrapped 1971; MV Almeria Lykes (1972), a Type C8 transferred to Military Sealift Command in 1986 and renamed USNS Cape May [1]
She survived being damaged in the Liverpool Blitz in December 1940 and took part in two Malta convoys to relieve the Siege of Malta. She survived air attacks during the first of these, Operation Substance, in July 1941 but was lost on her second Malta Convoy, Operation Pedestal, in August 1942.
Operation Pedestal Cape Bon 13 August 1942 Motor Torpedo Boat MS 31: Torpedo Wairangi, 12,400 ton [24] [23] Operation Pedestal Cape Bon 13 August 1942 Motor Torpedo Boats MAS 552 and MAS 554: Torpedo Almeria Lykes, 7,773 ton [25] [23] Operation Pedestal Cape Bon 13 August 1942 Motor Torpedo Boat MAS 554 Torpedo Santa Elisa, 8,379 ton [26] [23 ...
Passing Gibraltar on 10 August, the convoy became Operation Pedestal, consisting 14 merchant ships escorted by a total of 23 warships at various times from 2 August. [9] On 12 August, gunners on board Almeria Lykes shot down two enemy aircraft. [10] Also on that day, an unexploded torpedo mine was caught on the bridge of Almeria Lykes.
Pedestal was a Royal Navy operation to escort a convoy of 14 merchant ships through the western Mediterranean to relieve and resupply the besieged island of Malta. The convoy escort was the largest ever assembled in World War II, comprising 2 battleships, 3 aircraft carriers (Eagle, Victorious and Indomitable), 7 light cruisers (including Kenya ...