The auxiliary ship Olterra was a 5,000 GRT Italian tanker scuttled by her crew at Algeciras in the Bay of Gibraltar on 10 June 1940, after the entry of Italy into the Second World War. She was recover
Olterra at anchor shortly before being broken up at Vado Ligure, 1961
Olterra's hidden hatch
Cockpit of a maiale.
Image of Thorshøvdi broken in two at Gibraltar.
Lionel Crabb
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Lieutenant-Commander Lionel Kenneth Philip Crabb,, known as Buster Crabb, was a Royal Navy frogman and diver who vanished during a reconnaissance mission for MI6 around a Soviet Navy cruiser berthed a
Italian auxiliary ship Olterra
…the danger of a potential attack on the fleet at anchor. After the summer incursions of combat swimmers an underwater bomb disposal unit (Lieutenant Lionel Crabb) had been sent to Gibraltar. A pattern of depth charges was dropped by the motor barges at three minute intervals. The craft of Visintini and Magro was…
Crabb, April 1944
Crabb in Gibraltar
Medals awarded to Lionel Crabb.
Ordzhonikidze was a Sverdlov-class cruiser similar to that shown in this photograph (Alexander Nevsky).