AUGUST 10-11th. night
Entered Gibralter in heavy fog
August 11
4 torpedoes from German U-73 sink carrier EAGLE,
260 men lost,all but 4-planes lost.
CarrierFURIOUSflies off 36-planes for MALTA,
turns back as planned.
Destroyer rams and sinks Italian submerine.
40-German bombers attack convoy.
AUGUST 12th.
20-Junker 88s attack convoy.
Submerine attacks.
100-German and Italian planes attack-
DEUCALION sunk by ariel torpedo,
dud hits Carrier VICTORIOUS.Italian submerine forced to
surface by depth charges
30-Junker 87s attack carrier INDOMITABLE hit 3-times,
destroyer FORESIGHT damaged by ariel torpedo
and had to be sunk.
Cruisers CAIRO and NIGERIA torpedoed by Italian submerines,
CAIRO abandond,NIGERIA returns to Gibralter.
OHIO torpedoed by Italian submerine and on fire.
Manages 13 knots after repair.
20-Junker 88s attack.Gunners on ALMERIA LYKES
shoot down 2-planes.
EMPIRE HOPE bombed,high octane gas on fire,
abandoned and sunk by escort.
CLAN FERGUSON hit and explodes,
Italian submerine rescues 53 survivors.
BRISBANE STAR hit by torpedo,
Cruiser KENYA damaged by torpedo from Italian submerine.
AUGUST 13th. Passed through minefields between Africa and Cicily
around midnight,8-Italian torpedo boats made 15 attacks
cruiser MANCHESTER hit and sinks,
SANTA ELISA hit by torpedo,
entire ship on fire,and abandoned,
ALMERIA LYKES torpedoed sinks immediately,
WAIRANGA< and torpedoed,on fire,and sinks.
ROCHESTER CASTLE torpedoed but keeps going,
it is now 4am.
AUGUST 13th continued
Fighters from Malta fired on by convoy because communications out.
12 Junkers 88s attack WAIMARANA
hit aviation gas on deck bursts into fire, ship explodes and sinks,
87 of 107 crew killed.
Wreckage starts fire on MELBOURNE STAR.60 Stuka dive bombers attack,
focus on OHIO.Junkers 88 crashes into OHIO.
OHIOmines,torpedoes and circling torpedoes,
2-bombs straddle her,lift her out of the water,
boilers blown,she is dead in the water at 10.50am.
DORSET disabled by three near misses,
engine room flooded,,high octane gas on fire, ship abandoned.
12 Italian torpedo bombers attack PORT CHALMERS,
catches torpedo in paravane
(submerged floats meant to catch mines)
Bomb hits KENYA,sets forward engine room on fire, fire put out,.
Fighters from Malta provide some air cover.
ROCHESTER CASTLE,PORT CHALMERS, and MELBOURNE STAR
steam on to meet escort from Malta,
reach Grand Harbour in Valetta at 6pm.
Junkers 88s attack on OHIO,
OHIO nearly split in two as bomb hits in same area as torpedo,
crew abandon ship,Italian torpedo bombers attack.
AUGUST 14th.
BRISBANE STAR arrives in Malta.
Source=http://www.usmm.org

If those five ships had not got through, Malta would have certainly fallen, and who knows what might have happened.