HMS Charybdis (88)
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HMS Charybdis was a Dido-class cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War and was sunk with heavy loss of life by German torpedo boats in an action in the English Channel in October 1943.
Charybdis underway, February 1943
Operation Pedestal: 12 August 1942: HMS Indomitable on fire after being bombed. HMS Charybdis is screening the carrier.
A number of bodies washed ashore from the sunken Charybdis were buried in the war cemetery in Saint Saviour, Jersey
Operation Calendar
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Operation Calendar was an Anglo–American operation in the Second World War to deliver 52 Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft to Malta in April 1942. Spitfires were necessary to challenge Axis air superiority over Malta because they had the performance that Hurricane fighters lacked. Aircraft carriers were necessary to get fighter aircraft to positions in the western Mediterranean from which they had the range to reach Malta but British aircraft carriers were busy elsewhere, under repair or too small to deliver enough Spitfires to be effective.
A Spitfire takes off from USS Wasp.
NASA Satellite photograph showing the Strait of Gibraltar and the Alboran Sea
F-4 Wildcats and Spitfires on USS Wasp (CV-7) in April 1942