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Veterans/Remembrance day question: can you name the ship...?

...without searching. Or failing that by searching.

Over the course of three days this ship was:

Torpedoed and set on fire.

Damaged by near-miss bombs.

Hit by two crashing bombers.

Damaged by bombs again.

Took a direct hit from a bomb..

Hit by yet another bomb.

This was no armoured warship but a fully-laden tanker. She survived just long enough to deliver her vital load.

Of the fourteen merchantmen in that critical convoy, only five got through.

An aircraft carrier, two cruisers and a destroyer were lost trying to protect it.

Can you name the tanker?

Lest we forget.

One story out of thousands.

Update:

A web-page giving just some of the story.

http://www.usmm.org/malta.html

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  • 1 decade ago
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    You are exactly right, but sad to say I don't remember the ship's name. It was a tanker filled with av gas, it was kept afloat by being lashed to ships on either side, and its destination was Malta.

    "No greater love has any man...."

  • Chase
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    1 decade ago

    Hmm...I do not know the answer, but would love to know. That is quite inspiring.

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