CONVOYING MERCHANTMEN TO MALTA. 17 TO 19 JANUARY 1942, ON BOARD HMS DIDO IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN. FOUR CRUISERS AND SEVERAL DESTROYERS LEFT ALEXANDRIA TO ESCORT FOUR MERCHANTMEN LADEN WITH TROOPS, TANKS, ETC, TO MALTA. WEATHER WAS EXTREMELY BAD AT THE BEGINNING OF THE JOURNEY, AND ONE DESTROYER, HMS GHURKA, WAS TORPEDOED AND SUNK, AND ONE MERCHANTMAN WAS BOMBED AND SET ON FIRE AND HAD TO BE ABANDONED AFTER THE TROOPS HAD BEEN RESCUED FROM HER. THE REST OF THE CONVOY REACHED MALTA SAFELY. - Oerlikon gunner in HMS DIDO getting a light from a pal between bombing attacks. ,

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