Thsitlegorm
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Thistlegorm
was sunk by German planes 6.October 1941 under a journey
from Glasgow to Alexandria with military supplies for the
British 8th Army in Egypt. She arrived the Red Sea but the
traffic northwards through the Suez-canal was so
overloaded that they could not proceed. In the mean time
German intelligence had received information that the
British troopship Queen Mary was in the area with 1200
soldiers on board. 5.October two Heinkel HE111 from II \
KG 26 arrived in the northern part of the coastline in
search of her. On their way back to base they spotted
Thistlegorm laying at anchor and attacked. Two bombs hit
her behind the bridge and ignited part of the ammunition
and ripped the stern apart. At 01:30 she disappeared in
the deep at Sha`ab Ali. The wreck was found by Jaques
Cousteau in 1956 who filmed the wreck which was shown
later in the movie " The Living Sea " on National
Geographic Channel. The wreck rest today on her keel on a
depth of 10 to 30 meter near Ras Muhammad. Also see the
wreck of Rosalie
Moller.
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 Painting: Thistlegorm Originally from skovheim.org |
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