![]() ![]() Three of them resulted in the destruction or sinking of a number of Allied freighters, with a total tonnage of some 40,000 tn. She was sabotaged and partially sunk by British commandos that day.įrom 24 September 1940 to 15 September 1942, there were six submarine-borne assaults on Gibraltar. On 10 June 1940, when Italy entered World War II by declaring war on France and the United Kingdom, Olterra found herself in the Bay of Gibraltar off Algeciras, Spain. Ltd and in 1930 was bought by Andrea Zanchi in Genoa. As Olterra she passed through the hands of the British Oil Shipping Co. In 1925 she was again sold, this time to the European Shipping Co. Osage was sold to the Standard Oil Co in New York in 1914 and renamed Baton Rouge. She was built in 1913 by Palmer's Ship Building and Iron Co Ltd, Tyneside, United Kingdom, for a German company. Olterra started life as the tanker Osage. Italian auxiliary ship Olterra shortly before being scrapped in 1961 at Vado Ligure, Italy. She was recovered in 1942 by a special unit of the Decima Flottiglia MAS to be used as an undercover base for manned torpedoes in order to attack Allied shipping at Gibraltar. The auxiliary ship Olterra was a 5,000 ton Italian tanker scuttled by her own crew at Algeciras in the Bay of Gibraltar on 10 June 1940, after the entry of Italy in World War II. Her wreck lies in the English Channelģ August 1943 - auxiliary ship Olterra last excursion Amongst the survivors was her commander, Captain Sim, who was later awarded the OBE by King George V. The Deputy Chief Controller of the Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corp, Mrs Violet Long, lost her life in this action. The ship sank in about two hours, and of the 801 persons on board, 123 died when the Warilda sank. This was despite being marked clearly with the Red Cross as with a number of other hospital ships torpedoed during the war, Germany claimed the ships were also carrying arms. On 3 August 1918, she was transporting wounded soldiers from Le Havre, France to Southampton when she was torpedoed by the German submarine UC-49. Her identical sister ships, also built by William Beardmore and Company, were SS Wandilla (1912) and SS Willochra (1913). She was designed for the East-West Australian coastal service, but following the start of the First World War, she was converted into a troopship and later, in 1916, she was converted into a hospital ship. HMAT Warilda ( His Majesty's Australian Transport) was a 7713-ton vessel, built by William Beardmore and Company in Glasgow as the SS Warilda for the Adelaide Steamship Company. 3 August 1918 - hospital ship HMAT Warilda was torpedoed by the German submarine and sunk ![]()
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