SS Ohio

SS Ohio lashed to HMS Penn
and HMS Ledbury

Survivors of the Quentin 1942
Arthur Cox far right

Assembling at Gibraltar awaiting
operation 'Pedestal'.

'F' Force Royal Navy Ships escorting
Operation Pedestal

Nelson----------Flagship Battleship
"Z" Force
Victorious------Aircraft-carriers
Indomitable-----
Eagle-----------
Rodney----------- Battleship
Furious---------Light Cruisers
Phoebe----------
Sirius----------
Charydbis-------Destroyers
Laforey---------
Lightening------
Lookout---------
Quentin---------
Somali----------
Eskimo----------
Tartar----------
Ithuriel--------
Antilope--------
Wishart---------
Wescott---------
Wrestler--------
Zetland---------
Wilton----------

Crew of the HMS Quentin

Above and below 2 photo's of Jack Ion: Stoker
1st Class.Donated with thanks by his family.
Jack was killed on the Quentin when
she was sunk during operation'Torch',
on 2nd Dec.1942 off Cape Bone

SS Ohio being Torpedoed

SS Ohio at Malta just
before she sunk

Another Photo of the HMS Eagle sinking

HMS Eagle being torpedoed

Photo's of HMS Lamerton Cont'd

HMS Nigeria on Operation 'Pedestal'
Torpedo damage to bows

More escort ships awaiting the
start of Pedestal

"Y" Force
Matchless-------Destroyers
Bodsworth-------

"R" Force
Jonquil--------Corvettes
Geranium-------
Spirea---------
Coltsfoot------
Salvonia-------

Real Story Part 2

Honorary citizan of Valletta 2002

Photo donated by his Son