Torpedo attack on Malta convoy
23 July 1941: Light Cruiser HMS Manchester suffers casualties and damage
HMS Eridge was part of a convoy taking urgently needed supplies from the British base at Gibraltar to the island of Malta. Commanding the destroyer was Frank Gregory-Smith who was later to write a vivid memoir of life during the Mediterranean war:
Now that the moment of decision was at hand many men, who had…
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