A new Operation Pedestal needed

A new Operation Pedestal needed

Today, we celebrate Santa Marija and the 83rd anniversary from the Malta Convoy of August 1942. Known as Operation Pedestal, Malta faced near-impossible odds to bring vital supplies to it shores. We were a small island under relentless siege for months.The mission was perilous, fraught with danger from German enemy forces seeking to starve Malta...

From The Brink Of Starvation To Survival: Operation Pedestal's Legacy

On 15th August 1942, the people of Malta lined the bastions overlooking the Grand Harbour. What they saw was almost unbelievable: a battered oil tanker, SS Ohio, limping towards Valletta, kept afloat only because two Royal Navy destroyers were lashed to her sides, holding her upright. Her decks were smashed, her hull flooded, and she had been hit so many times by bombs and torpedoes that any other ship would have gone down long before. But in he…