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Operation Pedestal (Italian: Battaglia di Mezzo Agosto, Battle of mid-August), known in Malta as Il-Konvoj ta' Santa Marija (Santa Maria Convoy), was a British operation to carry supplies to the island of Malta in August 1942, during the Second World War.
In August 1942 Deucalion took part in Convoy MW 12, part of Operation Pedestal to relieve Malta. MW 12 passed Gibraltar on 10 August and came under attack from 11 August. On 12 August five Heinkel He 111 bombers attacked Deucalion. One bomb penetrated her number 5 hold aft, exploded below the waterline and lifted the ship bodily in the water.
However, in July 1942 ships selected for Operation Pedestal had their armament increased by the addition of either Oerlikon 20 mm cannons and/or Bofors 40 mm guns. Both Waimarama and her sister Wairangi were selected for Operation Pedestal. In July 1942 they would therefore have been fitted with extra anti-aircraft guns.
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] SS Almeria Lykes (1987), originally SS President McKinley [2]
During July and August, two new bolometer sites commenced operations near Algeciras and Ceuta. These sites detected Operation Pedestal, a convoy bound for Malta, during the second week of August 1942. Axis air, sea and submarine attacks led to many merchant ship losses.
Operation Pedestal: 12 August 1942: HMS Indomitable on fire after being bombed. HMS Charybdis is screening the carrier. Operation Pedestal was built around a 15-ship convoy of merchantmen, escorted by a powerful force consisting of two battleships, four aircraft carriers, seven cruisers and twenty six destroyers.
Operation Pedestal, 1942 MV Brisbane Star was a British refrigerated cargo liner . She was built by Cammell Laird and Co in 1936–37 as one of Blue Star Line 's Imperial Star -class ships, designed to ship frozen meat from Australia and New Zealand to the United Kingdom .
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 ...