A Hunt-Class Destroyer Rescued 500 Survivors From Four Different Ships — All in One Convoy

The Shadow Files

August 1942. Malta was weeks from starvation. The Royal Navy scraped together every available warship for Operation Pedestal – the most desperate convoy of World War II. Among the escorts: HMS Ledbury, a cramped Hunt-class destroyer that cost £20,000. She wasn't fast. She wasn't heavily armed. She w