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...

keeping. Kenya played a prominent role in Operation Pedestal during August 1942.  Pedestal was a Royal Navy operation to escort a convoy of 14 merchant ships...

served in the Second World War and is distinguished for her rôle in Operation Pedestal to relieve the siege of Malta in August 1942. She was owned by a succession...

Malta during the Second World War. The tanker played a key role in Operation Pedestal, which was one of the fiercest and most heavily contested of the Malta...

Indomitable after she had been hit by dive bombers. Shortly after Operation Pedestal, Lt.Cdr. Cecil Powis Frobisher Brown relinquished command of Lookout...

months working up and escorting convoys. Manchester participated in Operation Pedestal, another Malta convoy, in mid-1942; she was torpedoed by two Italian...

up pedestal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pedestal is a support or a stand for a statue or other object. Pedestal may also refer to: Pedestal crater...

to provide an escort for HMS Eagle in the Malta convoy Operation Pedestal. Operation Pedestal was built around a 15-ship convoy of merchantmen, escorted...

during the first of these, Operation Substance, in July 1941 but was lost on her second Malta Convoy, Operation Pedestal, in August 1942. This was the...

actions against the battleship Bismarck, several Arctic convoys, and Operation Pedestal. She was loaned to the United States Navy in 1943 and served in the...

lost. Only two months later she took up the role of close escort in the Pedestal convoy to Malta. During the fierce attacks that dogged the convoy, Ledbury...

meat, from New Zealand to the United Kingdom. Waimarama took part in Operation Pedestal in August 1942. A German aircraft bombed her before the convoy reached...

Operation Julius and Operation Pedestal, convoy operations which revictualled Malta, easing the siege and allowing offensive air and naval operations...

the United Kingdom. She was soon back in action, participating in Operation Pedestal, the largest convoy to supply the besieged island of Malta. This convoy...

on 11 August 1942 as Eagle was escorting a convoy to Malta during Operation Pedestal. In 1911, the Chilean Navy ordered one 28,000-long-ton (28,450 t)...

campaign Codenames: Operations of World War 2: Pinpoint access-date 6 March 2019 Operation Harpoon Photos of Operation Pedestal Documentary film: Convoy...

lost during their first year of operational service. Operation Substance was the first real operation Lightning was part of. She formed part of the Home...

Gibraltar, and served as escort oiler on several Malta Convoys. During Operation Pedestal, together with RFA Brown Ranger, she fuelled one cruiser and 24 destroyers...

forces of British convoys to Malta, Operation Vigorous (known in Italy as the Battle of Mid June) and Operation Pedestal (known in Italy as the Battle of...

28 Sea Hurricane victories against eight losses during Operation Harpoon and Operation Pedestal. "Hawker Hurricane". BAE Systems Heritage. BAE Systems...

served in the Second World War and is distinguished for her role in Operation Pedestal to relieve the siege of Malta in August 1942. She was sunk by torpedo...

freighter SS Santa Elisa, and subsequently the tanker SS Ohio, during Operation Pedestal, a convoy to the besieged island of Malta in the Second World War...

awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his work on Malta convoy operations. He retired from the Navy in 1948. He subsequently joined The Castaways'...

took part in Operation Harpoon & Operation Pedestal, the escorting of convoys to Malta in June & August 1942. During Operation Pedestal, she depth charged...

the British sent a very heavily defended convoy under the codename Operation Pedestal. Malta's air defence was repeatedly reinforced by Hawker Hurricane...

who saw service in both World Wars. He was knighted for his part in Operation Pedestal, the critical Malta convoy, in the Second World War. Born the son...

Arctic convoys during 1942. Later that year, Foresight participated in Operation Pedestal, another convoy to Malta. She was torpedoed by an Italian aircraft...

reduce the tempo of operations. A limited return to offensive operations was made against Axis convoys to Libya and Operation Pedestal in August delivered...

September 1941 Operation Ironclad as part of Force 121 – March to May 1942 Operation Harpoon – June 1942 Operation Pedestal – August 1942 Operation Husky – July...

Born: Isabel Allende, writer, in Lima, Peru The British launched Operation Pedestal, an effort to get desperately needed supplies to Malta. German submarine...