hms coventry 1941
These searched for a depth of about 140 miles between 030° and 085°. After we had given them their position they had gone on for about ten miles , but not having sighted the Egyptian coast, and being down to the last few pints of fuel , had decided that they had better return to us and ditch alongside, rather than risk running out of fuel completely, before they were over Egypt. It was made up of On the return passage, the force was attacked by four Ju.88’s at about 0900 hours, Rear-Admiral Rawlings, meanwhile, had been having a much more different experience. The enemy attack went according to plan besides that the torpedo attack was only made half an our after the ‘mines’ were dropped instead of five minutes.
The first of the three frets of resin parts has the superstructure / deck houses for Coventry.
Experience would show for how long this situation could be maintained.
At 2330/21 when some 18 miles north of Canea, Rear-Admiral Glennie with Force D which now consisted of After taking a further sweep to the east and north, Rear-Admiral Glennie decided that, in view of serious shortage of AA ammunition (AA ammunition remaining; At daylight on 22 May 1941, the position of the naval forces at sea was as follows. They claimed to have hit an aircraft carrier and one of the merchant ships. After examining Pegadia Bay (six miles to the northward of the airfield on the east coast of Scarpanto), and finding it empty, Force E retired to the southward. At 0700 hours, an air search was flown off to search a sector of 295° to 025° but nothing was sighted. 810 Squadron had been flown off from At 1315/27 firing had practically ceased owning to the enemy drawing out of range. On 18th May 1941 the first Victoria Cross of the Mediterranean campaign was awarded poshumously to Petty Officer Alfred Edward Sephton for "great courage and endurance" while on HMS Coventry as she was being attacked by Geman Stuka dive bombers while off Crete.
Meanwhile, Rear-Admiral King, with Forces C and A 1 had been steering to the south-westward.
The destroyers were fuelled there. Shortly after takeoff one Swordfish crashed into the sea. The three remaining corvettes were at that time 80 nautical miles to the north-westward. Two near misses may have caused some damage to the rear ship. Nothingwas sighted except for a merchant vessel. In the meantime See also the event for 25 November 1940 called ‘Operation Collar and the resulting Battle of Cape Spartivento’ for the events in the Western Mediterranean. There had been two escorts, thought to be destroyers or torpedo boats. Group I streamed paravanes at 1800 hours. Meanwhile in the western Mediterranean nothing of further interest occured with the fleet and the force arrived at Gibraltar around 1100 hours. Waller in Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten had been withdrawing at full speed since dawn. On their return these aircraft made a practice attack on i>Renown and The bulk of the Fleet arrived at Alexandria around 1000 hours.
One Ju.88 aircraft was shot down and another one was damaged. The Mediterranean Fleet departed Alexandria in the forenoon, it was made up of the battleships After the Fleet sailed, convoy MW 7A departed Alexandria. At 0630 hours, ‘Force B’ arrived at Malta having made the passage unobserved. For this operation this force proceeded to position 38°11’N, 19°30’E. This force was made up of the battlecruiser At 0800/27, about half an hour before sunrise, the situation was as follows. At 1000 hours, At noon the fleet was in position 33°51’N, 26°32’E, steering 280°. Enemy aircraft were in the vicinity all day but no attacks developed. At 0001 hours, the Commander-in-Chief was in position 35°13’N, 15°25’E steering 300°.
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